CHLADNI FIGURES

Everything is in motion.

The heavens, the mountains,

The atoms.

Everything.

Beating to its own rhythm.

The emptiness, the sadness,

The pain,

Inside you

Beating faster than your heart,

Echoing excruciatingly.

Outside, 

The world appears calm, so serene -

You smile, greet people,

Listen to them,

Display the chladni figures

Of your face,

Pass the beating as sound,

As music,

As art.

METAMORPHOSES

Ovid's antique pen pecks the page

And stops after a mythological stretch

Searching for a title.

A man searches his lost goat

Somewhere under the sweltering desert sun

His whole body dripping by the blisters of his feet

Fuming and breathless.

Somewhere Goethe's sagacious literary eyes

Examine the etchings of Roos.

The man finally finds the doe

Blisters burst and he hugs her

Like a mother

Overcome by sympathy

He wants to become Roos' sheep

While God proclaims to his Angels

The person is ready to become Moses

Ovid writes Metamorphoses.

This is how begins

Art, literature, religion -

This is how animals become humans. 

THE ALEATORY POINT

(A NON-DELEUZIAN POEM FOR DELEUZE)

The hollowness
Death, dread and void
Pain, agony and ache
Suffering, misery and affliction
The emptiness -
Philosophy is recognizing
The empty square within life's square puzzle
Wisdom rests in reminding onself
That the emptiness remains unfulfilled
That this emptiness actually
Propels every movement within.
Art is the realization
That the square is
One among many shapes