17 May 1999 - vernal kirtle

Jay Scott : Daily Whale : archive : 1999 : 17 May 1999

Wishing the Planet a Long Life,
or, Why Twentieth Century Poets Gave Up On Rhyme

Long may the turtle hurtle
Maternal and diurnal in her vernal kirtle.
May she turn eternal!
That’s not bad. I’ll write it in my journal.

clue:

You know, the turtle on whose back the world rests.