3rd Sunday Write, or, Dragons and Love; A Funny Thing Happened . . .

So it’s that time again with me, as usual, a little bit late. And with, as is the usual pattern, four prompts supplied by moderator Shana Ritter, of which the fourth is most often a link to a poem with an instruction to comment on it, I chose the fourth. The poem itself can be found by pressing here, with the lines I commented on quoted below in italics.

Read and respond (from “Summer Solstice” by Stacie Cassarino)

the paper wings of the dragonfly
aeroplaning the soul with a sudden blue hilarity?
Yes, a quote from a poem, by one Stacie Cassarino,
and well it might end with a question mark.
“Aeroplaning the soul”? (well, yes, British spelling),
“a sudden blue hilarity”?
Well, hilarious, maybe. The poem is about love, I think,
and she and I recognize I believe
the absurdity of love from its start!
What gloriousness of an absurdity, though,
and the fact that it sometimes lasts —
perhaps only rarely —
but even if not, can the swiftest jet plane journey
offer a shadow of love’s sheer joy?
And even if not — as airplanes sometimes crash too —
the fire of that dragon then comes into play
and can burn forever!

And . . . a funny thing happened betwixt yesterday’s post and today’s receipt of emails. It seems that yesterday’s “royalty publisher” made a wee mistake: that the royalty announced was from 2023, not 2024. Not to worry, however — attached was the new report.

And the actual royalty due for this year’s first quarter? A more “normal” zero.