Minotaur.

Minotaur. Minotaur Alluring, this minotaur, should you come upon her, blue-outfitted, holy-grailed, complete with long black key in one hand. It's not easy to be brave without at least some totems, on sticks if need be, surrounding one on all sides along with the extra dimensions required of string theory that demand labyrinthine mathematical structures for sustenance. I sensed her once in our woods, near the wolf tree, and suddenly I was in full flight, down the path, beyond the meadow and the two stately pines, veering around Rousseau's tiger that appeared among the sunflowers, oddly reassuring, helter-skelter up the mountain, hugging the ridge, then pressed against the large cold flank of the moon. A very small woman, small as a ballet dancer in a child's music box, gestured above my head, where was floating the keyhole in a grey dank fog & receding fast. Oh my anxiety, my future, being lost in the midst, my middle age, flamingoes fleeing north, gods fleeing before them, then the minotaur's shadow glimpsed once -- so cool, with the key she'll never give over, her suave grey overcoat and enchantments, how I desire to stroke her horns, her sensual pelt, pierce the fog any way I can--Give it up, I, toss the key. Jan Conn's sixth book of poetry is Jaguar Rain (Brick Books,2006). She is a research scientist at the Wadsworth Center, New York New York, state, United StatesNew York,Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of State Department of Health, in Albany, New York For other uses, see Albany.Albany is the capital of the State of New York and the county seat of Albany County. Albany lies 136 miles (219 km) north of New York City, and slightly to the south of the juncture of the Mohawk and Hudson Rivers. , and currently lives inGreat Barrington, Massachusetts Great Barrington is a town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States. It is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 7,527 at the 2000 census. . Her website is <www.janconn.com>."Minotaur" is one of a series of poems inspired by the greatSpanish- Mexican surrealist painter Remedios Varo Remedios Varo (December 16 1908 - October 8 1963) was a Spanish-Mexican surrealist painter. She was born in Angl��s Catalu?a, Spain in 1908 and died from a heart-attack in Mexico City in 1963. . Conn is currentlyreading and highly recommends the following: George and Rue George and Rue (ISBN 978-0-00-225539-4 / ISBN 978-0-00-648569-8) is a novel by George Elliott Clarke, published in 2005 by HarperCollins Canada.The novel is based on the true story of George and Rufus Hamilton, two Black Canadian brothers who murdered a taxicab by GeorgeElliott Clarke George Elliott Clarke (born February 12 1960) is a Canadian poet and playwright. Born in Windsor Plains, Nova Scotia, he has spent much of his career writing about the black communities of Nova Scotia and served for a time in the African-American Studies department at Duke , The Life and Times of Mexico by Earl Shorris, The GreatEnigma by Tomas Transtromer and The Narrow Road to the Interior byKimiko Hahn Kimiko Hahn (born in 1955 in Mount Kisco, New York) is an American poet (of partly Japanese descent) and instructor of poetry. PersonalHahn received a bachelor's degree from the University of Iowa and an M.A. from Columbia University. .