Monday, May 19, 2025

Geometry's Paradox

What if we are
all standing
at a slant
like a line
of skinny pines
caught in the violent
breath of a hurricane,

the very horizon

cutting our eyes

at an angle,

stitching itself

into the pupil,

the entire world

askew and play it

on the fly?

 

One must wait

for the foaming

rabid dog of surf

to subside.

Then we may

stand upright,

the plumb restored

to the vertical,

and walk along

the shoreline,

 

our feet flirting

with kinder surf,

foreplay for making

love to the most

mysterious deep

which seduces us into

its feminine heart,

neither scalene nor

isosceles but

circumscribed by fluid

love.


~William Hammett




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