Igor met the new girl in the village;
he wanted his grandfather to know
he had fallen in love; his relative
didn't approve as there was no way
of knowing whether the girl was a
travelling spirit only disguised as
a girl from the cold northern wood;
Igor thought his grandfather must
be mistaken & determined to make
her his bride in red & they went off
into the woods where Igor was gaily
welcomed by the strange people
where all the women were in red &
all the men in blue; Igor's grandfather
growing old & alone lost his sight
& then his hearing & soon couldn't
move at all & he had a dream of
Igor gamboling through the forest
glades happy as a satyr for the first
in his life in a frozen still-life tableaux
of bliss, peace, tranquility, serenity
& calm & Igor's grandfather shed
a tear b/c he would love to go there
but he was too angry, too sad, too vain
& too ignorant; in other words his
feelings & emotions were a hard shell
that he could never escape; meanwhile
Igor felt nothing numb w/ love in his
vision his grandfather somehow burst
the shell but in reality no such thing
happened & Igor went on happily living
w/ his bride who was everything his
grandfather said she would be; a spirit
in disguise but w/o the mask of the girl
the spirit was even more beautiful;
his grandfather couldn't have known,
wouldn't understand or comprehend
the world outside his shell of emotions