Ave Maris Stella

Loose Leaves – Art Inspired

 

Lita Albuquerque - Southern Cross from Stellar Axis Antarctica, Ross Ice Shelf (2006)

This poem has a double inspiration: Firstly, Lita Albuquerque’s “Southern Cross from Stellar Axis Antarctica, Ross Ice Shelf” (2006). And secondly, “Ave Maris Stella”, composed by Mine Kawakami, and performed at Santiago de Compostela, Spain (2025).

 

 

AVE MARIS STELLA

 

All points fixed

still yet moving

amid the infinite.

 

 

 

Mine Kawakami - Ave Maris Stella (2025)

 

This poem was originally written and posted on Bluesky