Savant syndrome
"This tenderness comes as a surprise
Drinking where the riverbed was dry
Trees in the wind trembling with love." Sam Beam
Drinking where the riverbed was dry
Trees in the wind trembling with love." Sam Beam
Mabinogion - idiot savants
Sent the hot wind of endurance
Sent the hot wind of endurance
To inflame those who saw
Seas, skies, mountains, people
Yearning to drive out the barbarian
The plain-faced Saesneg and return
To Arthur's court all the delights
Of celtic culture. Building a line
Of fires across the hills, hiding
The bog poets extraordinarily gifted
The bog poets extraordinarily gifted
Idiot savants rippled into
That invasion of sensibility,
Signs signified could not change:
Signs signified could not change:
Mountains, seas, people, skies.
And thus gave the lie to human
Power. Idiot savants invested
Landscapes with meaning, scarred
By war the druid reborn in a new
By war the druid reborn in a new
Age. Medieval savants built a ladder
To the stars; so modern cosmology spread
The wisps of understanding far into
The wisps of understanding far into
The heavens. Time and tide and femininity;
A cycle that links the moon, lunacy, fertility
Outside of the straight lines of male rationality.
The goddess, reborn in fire, earth, water, air,
Leaves upon a tree tell a tale of you and me
Alive, today, beneath this swirling, darkening sky.
