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Here, inside the angle
of my hypotenuse
perfection reigns
Here, inside the privacy
of ratio gold and leaning
ever more toward limitless
I happily ignore what does not
please in favour of the guidance
that propels me here
from point to line
from pulse to spine
and put my feet up while
the computations of intelligence
exorbitantly free of
more-or-less-however-but
congress and clarify
for pure, pure pleasure of—
that’s it—for pure, pure pleasure of…
and while that participle dangles
pulling in all elements cooperative
like prawns upon a hook with bite
enough to banish fish I do not wish
to be digested by, I casually observe
the opposite, pay tribute to adjacent
and while future softly laps
against perfection of the present,
I imagine that the poetries purported
to be lost of Apuleius and those others
from the Mystery Schools were never
lost at all—‘twas me who lost connection
to the stars, who wouldn’t try new angles
in the fear that someone else’s quarter
circle might be righter than. My word!
How could I think—it doesn’t matter
now, those days are gone.
Propulsion of today assures
me there’s no end point, never was,
that everybody’s fine, their angles
right and phi. I’ll meet you here.
There is no other place.
~~~
© Elaine Stirling, 2014
Image from http://www.allthenightlong.com at deviantart
That seems to be a radical new direction for your poetry Elaine — a tangent perhaps. I find it challenging but ‘here’ I am, ready for the challenge, ready to meet you at this point . 🙂
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Thank you so much, John! I can’t imagine a finer poetic companion as I gingerly explore these new “spaces”.
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Love your word play. Particularly liked the “the angle
of my hypotenuse.”
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hehe, thank you, Benn! One of the joys of poetry, for me, is a chance to revisit subjects I did not enjoy so much in school, and to find them brim-full with new meaning.
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Very perspicuous elucidation with elegant language choices. Nice work.
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Perspicuous, oh, I do love that new word! Thanks, Mike. 😉
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Perspicuous, oh, I do love that new word! Thanks, Mike. 😉
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