Dark Tussock Moth

<p><strong><em>Dark Tussock Moth</em></strong> journeys through personal history western landscapes touched by humans and drought and the life and legacy of 17th century artist and naturalist Maria Sibylla Merian to explore metamorphosis: The mind can instantly connect one piece of information with any other piece.  Merian who has been called the mother of ecology documented insect and plant relationships. Various lenses-ecopoetic ekphrastic philosophical-are turned toward the number of celestial objects as this collection notes entanglements of memory and desire. Form collage and parataxis engage the ever-arising cosmos; place flowers and insects may be apertures-but what does it mean to look? As Jorie Graham writes What you get is to be changed. In the space between looking and surrender <em>Dark Tussock Moth</em> hovers: what makes itself :  itself. </p>