Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Escher, and a poem

'Relativity'

"on viewing Escher, closely"

                                        I
who knows what else!  an angle can arc to a point of resting
-'long the sigmoid post- (I'm unsure how to think
    through it)  Tell stairs from the seas?
     There! god cares less

and as if known and felt  the fall enshrined   in me (dizzy
  say by getting up too fast!), hearts that tilt
   from out a preDali world go hard
        for the Tree, too 

Closely un-said til it's viewable or neatly untied  for me &
  the way a repast always  looks, irreversible:
    for Time's not round but in a most
      rampant whorl of all,
          
closed there where you clomb apace Can't tell tiers anymore?
  Make way, lead or just fall in edging it! ( a mov-
    ing V in the boss light of a trick)
      Eye rhymes with sky

and so forces from out of you always the inward you must
   flag a step at a time

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

am (al-most) " hearin' " echos of Ths Wyatt the Elder

here-in

would go with something like:

"Makes way, leads & falls in the edging of it"
and end the piece there

your words & sense of things....

just got a perfect line from Stone Girl
with a typo that knocked me down...

also shadesof Wyatt so I add to your "tiers"
&
"her" tears

full moon
enunciating
"I would self my soul, myself so short"


another I play with your sense of things

an angle's can and does .... etc....

've taken things to the edge
and jumped

K.

Conrad DiDiodato said...

Wyat the Elder

gotta check him out: sounds like my poetic double. It's funny when I write poetry the way I hear it,& want it, it sounds about a century old and yet it's a broken postmod dialect I'm hankering after.

Go figure.

Escher, though a flop in school, just had 'math' in his blood, and it came out in his amazing works. I was watching a documentary program on him, and on some mathematician in Netherlands who's discovering all sorts of complex laws of symmetry, asymmetry in his artwork. Again, the post-avants today think they were the first to boldly mix science\math with their installations: it was done already about a hundred years ago.

Thanks, K!

Anonymous said...

well

no machine will EVER be as fast or as vast as
even
an ant's brain...

maybe
take this piece &
ELIMINATE all of the useless articles, words &
sentences

& see & sound-out what is left .. this will NOT reduce
as what are "they" calling it .. Minimalism

but will, me-thinks, ex-pand the possibilities

and

if you are going for "a broken postmod dialect"

just b r e a k the dialect the one that you hear

on street corners or on a city bus !


K.