By day, the earthly peacock paces
courtyards paved with lapis tiles,
enchanting Mughal ladies and the singers
at their lyres. His head inclines to pomegranate
seeds held out in rosy palms. From Persia
to the Nile he is a paragon of courtly charms.
By night, the heavenly peacock roams
the indigo and silver sky, reflecting
peerless Venus in his ageless, scintillating eye,
bejewelling his tailfeathers with captive planetary moons,
basking in the cosmic light of Saturn, Jupiter and Mars.
The plumes he sheds are witnessed from afar as shooting stars.
A Pair of Peacocks
© Copyright: Jena Woodhouse, 2003
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