At the Rally Glut of rectangles. A few squares. Angled shoulders dig hard into reporters locked inside a square box where cubed fingers tap on rows of quadrilateral devices. Way in the back by a perfect right angle, an oval shouts something cursive, is escorted outside by hard-edged isosceles trapezoids who march up linear aisles perpendicular to the plane of the wall. Suddenly a squeal from a place near intersecting diagonals--a circle is hiding! Bare knuckles swing for the radius. The circle calls out theorems and proofs. The crowd goes crazy. Squares form a Rubik’s cube in the chaos. A rhombus stands up, reminds that proofs are artifacts of political correctness. The circle rolls down the aisle, slips away. A golden trapezium stands at the podium. Kathleen Stancik This was written for the 20 Poem Challenge. Kathleen Stancik recently discovered ekphrastic poetry and finds it an exciting way to stimulate creativity. Her poems have been published in Manastash and Poet's Unite! The LiTFUSE @10 Anthology.
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Mary McCarthy
10/26/2016 09:59:16 am
Really cleverly done!! A very modern, very current, allegory!! Much enjoyed.
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