M C Escher's " Drawing Hands"
Posted: 16 Jun 2019, 11:08
The Creator toiled through the genus
of Euclidean Geometry and the Moorish
Alhambra, to show in perpetuity
that once there were two hands
trapped on paper, that struggled
to draw each other into existence.
First a shoulder, then a torso, limbs.
Over billions of years, they fillled
in the correct anatomical parts
until the first tentative steps
from the page into being.
Interdependent still,as brothers,
the way my cats sleep curled,
tail to nose of the other so that
I can't tell where one ends
and the other begins unless
they rise, arch their backs and yawn.
I rub their fur, conducting static;
the finger reaching down from
the Sistine toward Adam, the faint
blue arc when we come too close.
of Euclidean Geometry and the Moorish
Alhambra, to show in perpetuity
that once there were two hands
trapped on paper, that struggled
to draw each other into existence.
First a shoulder, then a torso, limbs.
Over billions of years, they fillled
in the correct anatomical parts
until the first tentative steps
from the page into being.
Interdependent still,as brothers,
the way my cats sleep curled,
tail to nose of the other so that
I can't tell where one ends
and the other begins unless
they rise, arch their backs and yawn.
I rub their fur, conducting static;
the finger reaching down from
the Sistine toward Adam, the faint
blue arc when we come too close.