Small Worlds VII
(Wassily Kandinsky, painting)
wassilykandinsky.net
My life in
miniature
fragments of a
world
in seconds, minutes,
hours
and memories
strewn across a
galaxy
so small it
fits
inside the eye
and I am left
disconnected
and alone
a separated
soul
without a center
point
my world
nevertheless
but less than ever it
was
in a universe too
large
to know my
name.
Stars and Disasters
(Pierre Alechinsky, aquatint)
www.wikiart.org
In this haphazard
universe
in this our
lives
filled with swirling
galaxies,
matterless
matter,
dreams and
phantasies
as invisible as they are
real
and the detritus of
past
collisions and
calamities
there are no
accidents
no forever
prophesies
no way around the
certainty
that hope and
imagination
cannot prevent.
The Complex of the Sphinx
(Pierre Alechinsky, painting)
quod.lib.umich.edu
Either lion or
woman
or both
not of this time or any
other
in timeless
wonder
a riddle wrapped in
stone
it stands alone
upon the desert
sands.
II
What secrets does it
know
of pharaohs and
philosophers?
What writing has it
read
in the hieroglyphs of
wind
and cursive
dunes?
What has it
heard
In the silence of the
sun?
III
It has travelled this
way
In its provident
crawl
to the edge of
history
to serve the
future
as its oracle and
god.