Saturday, January 26, 2013

Geometrizing


GEOMETRIZING


Pollen magnified into
spiny mine-like rambutans and
geodesic domes.
“God geometrizes.”

The production of shapes
Once initiated tends
To wrack a thousand
infinite emptinesses.

In a prism,
a chaos blossoms
like a horde, overcoming
the plain, golden wheat and
a girl gets plucked up.

Throw it all to nothing—
the sculptor balls the clay
into a formless mass in frustration
eliminating all distinctions.

The egg is laid—
a boring yolk,
a brooding goo—
From where and how then
Do strands begin to wind and join?

The painter applies his strokes—
smudges of egg and color
to the wall, of his majesty’s imperial
cathedral.
Lines as yet senseless,
Meaningless to the observer—
The embryo’s sudden bulges,
fish-like appendages…

Plied upon by-whom?
(never a has a painting
randomly composed itself into existence)
What immortal hand—hands,
Phantom fingers writhing
delicate, gentle stokes, unseen—

A vast collaboration of multitudes
lost in a conspiracy of silence—
ciphered, wageless, thankless
ever-ignored unseen laborers

Masters of triangles, lines,
cones and spheres—
Molders of form,
chaos-inseminators.

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