________________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

________________L. Kiew



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