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.