Wearing jewelry, I, a painted peacock, grew out from a tree that had been planted by seeds of rubies, diamonds, sapphires and emeralds. Branching out in nature, the river of the cosmos flowed by where Baby Shiva bore me a mirror. But what I appeared to be and the reflection of my physicality was fleeting and escaped me like a Maxfield Parrish billow of smoke. The Goddess Lakshmi looked on.
