Flirtatious Mount Rainier

 

                                               “Nature is wont to hide herself"  (Heraclitus)

            

                                               "Today the mountain,

playful and not omniscient, thinks itself

concealed among attendant clouds . . .

But you are no more hidden

by complacent cumulus

than Venus by a mask

of black Venetian velvet”

(Denise Levertov, "Masquerade," on Mt. Rainier)

                                                

                                               

                                                Seeking to cover my breasts with my hands,

            I could not, - Just as the snow may not

            conceal the southern hills.

            (Vidyapati, on the Goddess Radha, 

            15th century India)

Photo: Mount Rainier flirting with the camera, Mt. Rainier National Park, WA, August 4, 2011