<\/p>\n
Sitting on my favorite circle, I am bent<\/p>\n
And dangling over a square, with holes<\/p>\n
On the sides, a lateral plane in white space, built<\/p>\n
With white bricks and white pipes, I sit<\/p>\n
Under white lights, listen to white fans<\/p>\n
Breathing white air onto my white hands, my<\/p>\n
White face. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been throwing white paint<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
At triangles for hours, dripping<\/p>\n
And flowing, there are pockets of air for one moment when<\/p>\n
I splash at them and snuff<\/p>\n
Them out. They go without one word, not<\/p>\n
One wet plea, a last will, a sore thumb<\/p>\n
Against their fate, a full blink, it must be so fulfilling<\/p>\n
To be globular; made of light and true float, lucid<\/p>\n
Beads of soap in an iron sink<\/p>\n
A glowing ring on the end of a wand<\/p>\n
in a child\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hand, pockets<\/p>\n
Buried underwater, motion stirring them from<\/p>\n
Sleep. I want to effervesce and fill myself<\/p>\n
And claim one square inch of air, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mine<\/p>\n
And I will disperse it amongst my form<\/p>\n
And I will become spherical. I will be even<\/p>\n
And luminous and brimming like<\/p>\n
A perfect white, like an even coat<\/p>\n
Thrown on canvas or panel, wall<\/p>\n
Or window? I am standing in a field<\/p>\n
Of white grass before the frontier, I hold color<\/p>\n
In one hand, light in the other.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I muse on the Creator (standing on the far side<\/p>\n
Of the field) making his first circle, discoid<\/p>\n
Enough that he surprised himself, and saw that it was good so<\/p>\n
Drawing in the deepest breath of all time and curling<\/p>\n
His forefinger and thumb into a loop he blew<\/p>\n
The most triumphant breeze of all time and all the planets<\/p>\n
Went forth expanding into spheres, some landing near<\/p>\n
Others of the same charge<\/p>\n
And they began to sway, orbit and dancing,<\/p>\n
Sonorous all the while expanding<\/p>\n
In an everlasting exchange of force<\/p>\n
And swelling verve! I like to think of the Creator<\/p>\n
As the first Abstract Expressionist, who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just<\/p>\n
Trying to find the true nature<\/p>\n
Of his medium, this time on spheres because<\/p>\n
Flat surfaces had grown dull. I like to think<\/p>\n
He was on a roll and surprising himself and planning<\/p>\n
For his spherical masterpiece when he<\/p>\n
Looked closely at the green and blue one and it<\/p>\n
Was moving. And the Creator<\/p>\n
Was so bemused with the little moving things that he<\/p>\n
Forgot about his masterpiece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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