I Walk the Hypersurface (of artist Leonard Jubenville's 'Searching for NOW')

I Walk the Hypersurface

At the occasion of artist Leonard Jubenville’s exhibit, “Searching for Now” (August 11, 2016)

At 16, my life existed in 2-Dimensions.

like a caterpillar crawling one side of the milkweed,

or King Ferdinand walking his flat earth.

Being was just what I could see:

this or that,

here or there –

a standstill of absolutes.

At 36, the 3-Dimensions of my life’s loves,

the new-born atoms of my family,

triggered blood-tie ripples into the world,

each particle concurrently connecting

to the wondrous change I wrought.

At 66, I stand in this 4-Dimensional

hypersurface

absorbing all

the reverberations of

those earlier epochs.

Powerless to change what’s arose;

begun anew:

Art, Babies, Baking, Creating, Crops, Cycles,

Death, Dramas, Families, Friendships, gods

Grandmothers, Heartaches, Houses,

Loves, Lusts, Marriages, Moments, Paintings, Pies,

Seasons, Sex, Sensations, Space, Times, Worlds

The Alpha to Omega of my co-existing

16-36-66-continuum travels

with me

in me

here

NOW.