To Those Sacred Places Comments

This is absolutely brilliant! I loved the imagery, its piling up of details of a rain forest dive with animals outdoing each other in creepy behavior. I think the key passage for me was NIGHT OBLIGES TOGETHER WITH HIS SERVING NIGHT-STARS. Night is not simply a time of day, and an inactive one at that. It is rather that realm of possibilities not amenable to the daylight. A realm celebrated in Novalis's Hymns to the Night and Wagner's TRISTAN UND ISOLDE, for THE WAKERS IN THE NIGHT, THE HAUNTERS OF THE DARK, NIGHT'S FAVORITES. A splendid poem of the nocturnal vision. It's only 8 pm here in St, Paul but I feel the night's magic already!