Alex,
What's strange about the Connemara Pooka is that it's out of place in the
otherwise rather Ovidian (to resort to shorthand) mythic types. The Pooka is
a  "stray" not only because it comes from the British Isles/Ireland and
we're in the USA: an affable sprite ready to perch on a wall and have a
chat, or a  mischievous-tending-towards-nasty sprite, the homely Pooka is
*absurd* in the midst of the _terribilita'_ of these "moonmad" and
"ecstatic" types engaged in acts of "white electric" beauty:


blind birds singing
in glass fields

whitebone drones mating in air
among hullucinary moons


a masked bird fishing
in a golden stream


an ibis feeding
'on its own breast'


Tim Romano


Alex  Schmitz wrote:
> the Ferlinghetti of "Coney" seems (other than EP) as FAR AWAY from
> mythography as possible - I mean established mythology vs/ mythology as
poetic
> invention & so forth.