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.