“Revery on a Painting”
Excerpt from “Remembering Eternity”: “He found it charming that he could hear the splashes as the dolphin sped through the waters of the lake and of outer space and that he could feel the cool pearlescent radiance coming out of the moon as it floated just out of the reach of the nucleus: a moon that sincerely wished it might hop right back into the book of nursery rhymes where it belonged. In the peach and violaceous highlights of the areas where the grainy rings packed closely together, the initiate detected the glints of sunlight as it first woke the sleeping pigments of the ocean’s waters. Nearer the center, where the orange hues deepened, he felt the heat of lava lakes as they flowed, silent and inexorable, across the wall.”