the happy triffid stage of the lotus leaf
Or as elsmi says, the Mario Brothers fireball-shooting stage.
ETA: sovay asked me to write a poem with this title, and a poem happened, so:
The happy triffid stage of the lotus leaf
For Sonya
Underlayers never match.
Fishtails curled in jewels, inlaid man-eaters
-- ghosts of other stories
painted over
This is the image, I lie
This the style. There's never just one.
Overstories
-- precise and pretty
hide teeth.
---
Maybe relevantly, there's an Akbarnama painting that puts a lot of emphasis on two pretty dancing girls. They're narratively important to Akbar's framing of his life because, later, his foster brother Adham Khan abducted these two girls and his (Adham Khan's) mother had them murdered to hide the evidence.
ETA: sovay asked me to write a poem with this title, and a poem happened, so:
The happy triffid stage of the lotus leaf
For Sonya
Underlayers never match.
Fishtails curled in jewels, inlaid man-eaters
-- ghosts of other stories
painted over
This is the image, I lie
This the style. There's never just one.
Overstories
-- precise and pretty
hide teeth.
---
Maybe relevantly, there's an Akbarnama painting that puts a lot of emphasis on two pretty dancing girls. They're narratively important to Akbar's framing of his life because, later, his foster brother Adham Khan abducted these two girls and his (Adham Khan's) mother had them murdered to hide the evidence.