My autumn auroras

 Professional photo of the same northern lights I saw about 45 minutes away in anchorage Alaska. 

 My personal photo done in Palmer Alaska on October 13 2012 

I had not actually gotten around to reading Stevens poem called the Auroras of Autumn until after seeing the northern lights on my recent trip to Alaska. 

Stevens calls them snakes in the open sky 

“This is where the serpent lives, the bodiless.

His head is air. Beneath his tip at night

Eyes open and fix on us in every sky.

Or is this another wriggling out of the egg,

Another image at the end of the cave,

Another bodiless for the body’s slough?

This is where the serpent lives. This is his nest,

These fields, these hills, these tinted distances,

And the pines above and along and beside the sea.

This is form gulping after formlessness,

Skin flashing to wished-for disappearances

And the serpent body flashing without the skin.

This is the height emerging and its base

These lights may finally attain a pole

In the midmost midnight and find the serpent there,

In another nest, the master of the maze

Of body and air and forms and images,

Relentlessly in possession of happiness.

This is his poison: that we should disbelieve

Even that. His meditations in the ferns,

When he moved so slightly to make sure of sun,

Made us no less as sure. We saw in his head,

Black beaded on the rock, the flecked animal,

The moving grass, the Indian in his glade.”

I was disappointed to find that my camera as fancy as it is didn't capture the imagine I have in my head of what I saw, but the professional did at least. But after reading Stevens poem I envisioned it all over again bringing my photograph to life in my mind. Stevens imagination recreated my reality :) 

I may have actually found a poem that ill always look back upon now. 

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