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Monday, December 14, 2009

The Work of Circles


A circle can be the boundary of what it contains.
Or it can be the barrier to what remains outside.
Or it can be the open space where edges meet.

1 comment:

  1. Dr. MikeDecember 14, 2009 at 8:47 PM

    A/Round

    The circle forms the bottom half
    Of a globe, the belt
    Around the waist, and the waste

    Of time artificially clocked
    Inside the eyeball,
    Where veins branch out

    Groping for a synapse to spark.
    Created by man, nowhere
    Does the circle exist in nature:

    Earth’s an oblong wobble
    Taking an elliptical streak
    Across the dying light.

    Tilted on its axis.
    A droplet of glass
    Magnifies whatever it centers

    On, and flame leaps out
    To illuminate a niche,
    A hole in the wall.

    [Disposable {Poem December 14, 2009]
    Dr. Mike

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