19 lines of the villanelle

(mvbxr on tumblr)

"The truth is that the Sun has been known to past [sic] through 13 constellations since the boundaries of the 88 modern constellations were formalized by the International Astronomical Union in 1922, and the Moon can appear in 18 of them." (More about "See's Planet" & Poniatowski's Bull.)

"Herodotus describes an Egyptian labyrinth of three thousand intercommunicating rooms on two levels. The Dallas-Fort Worth airport can remind you of that." --Hugh Kenner

"How do you describe missing something you’ve never known directly? There is a Welsh word, hiraeth, which, though very difficult to translate into English, may approximate to something like ‘grief for lost places of the past, or homesickness for a home which may have never been’, and that definition may come closest to what it is I’m feeling."

Magnolia, cicadas on the air when I came home.