Yesterday De Jackson set us spinning at dVerse Poets Pub with examples of poetry that spanned genres while including derivatives of the deceptively “simple” word SPIN, and teased us into weaving our own text-iles so long as we did so in exactly 44 words.

What a challenge of abundance for me, as a past member of the UK Guild of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers… what rabbit holes to distract myself down…

But as some of you know, I have been star-struck for most of my life, so today I abandon the carding tools and the spindle tree, the teasels and the looming implications of growing Madder in at least two gardens six hundred miles apart …

I offer this Quadrille to the Moon Goddess of compassion and longevity White Tara, whose name Tara has been used also for Polaris, the North Star.

Polaris

As stars are spinning hubs of energy,
momentum increasing when
they draw in their arms,
like ice dancers,

CURIOSITY 
asks: "which
way their 
coil,
deasil* or 
widdershins?"

and: "does even
that cold North Star
twist recklessly above the Pole,
a fire-burst of energising laughter?"


© Kathy Labrum McVittie 3 September 2024

*deasil rotation is "sun-wise", (in the apparent path of the sun across the sky),
while widdershins is in the opposite, anti-clockwise, direction.

 Spin and rotation each have (at least) "two ways", and elegant mathematical language to define them.