protean muse

A collage of musical proliferations, astronomical callings, poetic gymnastics, intuitive inquiries, fears, cultural confusions, confessions, and yogic head-stands.

A name is an invocation for what it signifies. Protean Muse literally wrote itself one day as I sat in my home with tall brick windows facing Colorado mountains; visioning at an old wooden table with a notebook and cup of tea.

Protean (adjective): 1. readily assuming different forms or characters; extremely variable. 2. changeable in shape or form, as an amoeba. 3. (of an actor or actress) versatile; able to play many kinds of roles. 4. (initial capital letter) of, pertaining to, or suggestive of Proteus. [1598, from Gk. Proteus, sea god (son of Oceanus and Tethys) who could change his form; his name is lit. "first," from protos "first."]

Muse (noun): 1. Classical Mythology. a. any number of sister goddesses, originally given as Aoede (song), Melete (meditation), and Mneme (memory), but latterly and more commonly as the nine daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne who presided over various arts: Calliope (epic poetry), Clio (history), Erato (lyric poetry), Euterpe (music), Melpomene (tragedy), Polyhymnia (religious music), Terpsichore (dance), Thalia (comedy), and urania (astronomy; identified by the Romans with the Camenae. b. any goddess presiding over a particular art. 2. the goddess or the power regarded as inspiring a poet, artist, thinker, or the like. 3. the genius powers characteristic of a poet.

Muse (verb): 1. to think or meditate in silence, as on some subject. 2. Archaic. To gaze meditatively or wonderingly. 3. to meditate on. 4. to comment thoughtfully or ruminate upon. [Origin: 1300-50; ME musen to mutter, gaze meditatively on, be astonished]