Joseph Cornell

________________Tapestry ________________Once the winter wind drove ________________a mathematician to weaving. ________________Huddled by __________________________a pitch __________________________black stove ________________against the senseless cold ________________Descartes began a warp __________________________and woof ________________catching frozen ________________planets and comets ________________in an invisible grid. ________________He calculated to map ________________the continuum _______________________________gods _______________________________space _______________________________history ___________the whereabouts of his lover and the summer. ________________His shuttle flew ________________light and each thread glowed ________________a line, a world, a life. ________________There are many ways to __________________________dream the loom. ________________300 years later ________________another from Ulm saw ________________the tapestry wrapped _______________________________around

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