M.C. Escher
Mr. escher
drew
a spiral
staircase
on his paper pad
and named
it
mystery.
But mr. escher’s paper pad
was cut from a tree made of predictability,
filled with fitted
cogs and gears
made of cellulose
and inlaid with calculated chlorophyl
carapaces.
The only convoluted
interweaving mysterious mess
in this world
of perfect machinations
made by god and man
is the thing that neither of
them ever framed
or wrought.
It’s the argo with
jason, fleece
and captured wench
half submerged
in a scarlet sapphire
sea of liquor,
and oh the wrath
of the Diety
that shakes
that ocean, neither
jehovah’s
nor poseidon’s, nor any god besides.
And I am a storm tossed
man indeed who rides
the indecisive currents
and vivacious vessels
in our
internal maelstroms, and
noah’s rains could
never compete
with those of
you and i,
my dearest
darling.
Inside of us is
m.c. escher’s
greatest mystery,
the one he forgot he had
within him from the time his mother and father first stepped off the deck of jason’s ship,
that enigma, that abomination
and that bestial beauty,
that thing they call the human
heart.