THE WOLF IN WINTER

 

He fled in fear and reached the
silent fields
And howled his heart out, trying in
vain to speak
                                - Ovid, Metamorphoses



"We! Lord, quoth the gentyle knight,
Whether this be the Grene Chapel?
Here myght about midnight
The Devil his matynes telle."
                                 -Sir Gawain & The Green Knight



We humans fear the beast within
The Wolf  because we do not understand
the Beast within ourselves.
                                   - Gerald Hausman,  Meditations
                                                                      with the Navajos



The forenoon is burn-faced and wandering
And I am the Death of the Moon.

Below my countenance the Bell of
the night has broken
And I am the new Divine Wolf.
                                    - Adonis (Ali Ahmad Said Esber
                                                      The Divine Wolf)