Dinah McFarlane – Lunar Reflections
$550.00
Initiator Artist: Dinah McFarlane
Artwork Title: Lunar Reflections
Medium: Textile/fabric
Price: $550
Responder Author: Al Garrotto
Writing Title: Lunar Eclipse
Size: 11″x17″
Price: $10
There must’ve been something special about a full moon… lighting darkened space… thrilling earthbound lovers… like my great-great-
grandparents. As I’ve heard in family lore… from what I’ve read… and seen pictures of… in library books from long ago… how I wish I’d lived in that
enchanted age… of starry, moonlit nights… in that time before… yes, before…. Could that have been the same moon… from which I now avert my eyes?
Did that striking man in the moon… ever truly exist? Those evenings when
the moon… with its broad grin and approving eyes… smiled down upon Planet Earth… indifferent to which side lovers took… in periods of glorious peace… and times of horrendous war…. Hard to imagine… now.
Oh, disfigured moon… what happened to you? This night… rise to share with me the truth of your transformation… your, dare I say… gross
disfiguration… your— No other words rise within me to describe you….
or tell a different tale… the truth no one but you can know and reveal….
Only you have suffered your pain… endured your… dare I say it?… gross disfiguration.
“You ask for my story? Can you bear the truth of it? Say no… and I shall maintain my centuries-long silence…. Say yes… and I will spare you no truth.”
Oh, my dear sad satellite… speak your truth to me… though I sense I shall suffer… at your story’s gnarled hands.
“My truth…. You beg my truth…. Here you have it…. You have done this to me…. In your misguided sense of ‘progress’… you used me as a handy garbage dump… for what at first you called… probes of ‘outer space’….
I became the nearest… most available target of your… and your rivals’…
space probes…. I might have tolerated that… had you the courtesy of cleaning up your messes.… Instead… in your fear-and-hate driven greed… you scarred forever the once pristine image… given to me by the Creator of all that exists…. Thus, no longer am I your once-cute Man in the Moon…. But now… now… these long centuries removed… you dare to wonder at the cause of my appearance as… your Monster in the Moon.”
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