jeudi 24 septembre 2015

Chatham-Kent 3. Built Lines

On the occasion of artist Lorie Thibault’s exhibit, “I Walk the Lines” (September 24, 2015):

Built lines anchor
structures of brick, granite,
wood slats
to their ground.
dependent axes of studio windows and
blinds,
lost lighthouse shingles and
Parisien balcons bleeding
smoky residue onto the
masts of tall Seine ships
running down, down -
one with gravity
to the floor of our world.

Natural lines curve up,
 just enough
for mathematicians to puzzle
the Poinsot of ragwood leaves, the
Klein quartics of peonies,
Euler spiral snails and
rhododendron catenaries -
all growing contrary to
the epicycloid center of
  construction.

“If a tree falls in a bog”;
if “Number 7” windows
fall into disarray of their
tidy y-axes; what
“distraught iron” wouldn’t
leave its prim ‘inside’
lines for the
softening,
curving, widening
release of Gaia?
In the end, all
lines flowing to
the independent
x-chromo our
“Neighbour”

right beside us.

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