VIEWING
EVENING
This
short piece goes from the "sharp" solidities to the fractal
forms to the ethereal dusk to question the "relativities"
of perception.
Its
form is composed of varied meters "bound together" to some
extent by rhymes and half rhymes. Taking "u" to represent
unstressed syllables and "/" to represent stressed ones-
u / u / u / u /
u / u / u / u / u
u / u / u / u /
u / u / u / u / u
u / u / u / u /
u / u / u / u /
/ u / u u
/ u / u
/ u /
/ u / u
/ u /
/ u / u / u /
/ u / u / u /
u
u / u / u / u
u / u / u / u
u
u / u u /
u
u / u u /
VIEWING
EVENING
Above the sharp solidities
of dark shapes on the eastward
vastness,
the box-like shops and fractal
trees,
a white moon rides the rising
darkness,
last shine of air, where last
crows rove,
still hiding stars with rose
and mauve.
Viewing evening,
turning from
fading fractions
to the sum-
how
that air-sea draws my sight
into musing on life's light.
Oh, ethereal, vast ocean,
wide world of last light's
weaving.
is the emptiness full,
is the full only seeming?
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