fractal
born (or borne) or bourn, for that matter.
manipulate
stoic
TO ARIADNE, WITH APOLOGIES
Winding small and smaller
into this fractaled labyrinth—
this, and this, and oh yes
this again—I know this path,
this curve, this color.
No center, only pattern,
the bourn approached
but never reached.
If Platonic, I’d re-form
the beast, Cynic, manipulate.
Stoic, I’d pay it no mind.
If there were a beast,
something here not myself,
this endless ball of string.
Your works so often cause me to have to look things up (look up things?). And I like that. For example, bourn and Ariadne (because I am woefully illiterate of the classics). Do you know, there are some fabulous art works depicting Ariadne? I could happily hang several of them in my house, if I had any unused wall space.