Orthoteny: from a work in progress: Magonian Latitudes

Here, I share a poetic sequence from my second trade edition Ladonian Magnitudes, “Magonian Latitudes,” which concerns (among other things) those tales of ships in the skies from the Middle Ages that inspired at least the title for Jacques Vallée’s canonical Passport to Magonia. The sequence includes a version of a story that was to be repeated during the Mystery Airship wave of 1896/7, as well as reference to cave paintings thought by some to evidence alien visitation in prehistory, and broaderband thematic resonances of the these stories…