APEX AND BASE

‘Shape is the thing that bounds the solid.’¹

‘As above, with the red,

we have here

a subjective substance in an objective shell.’²

The square has a spiritual custom of its own.

A paper angel flooding a wall, the room

tips without warning.

Particle repeats the whole,

world carried on word as

a rudder reconstructs the silenced ship.

In a capsule of thinking Socrates asks Meno

to consider the slave

who recites geometric truths

without prior learning:

evidence the soul has seen all.

Why lead a slave through a geometric proof to demonstrate what the soul knows?

Aspire to lose everything.

1 Socrates. According to Plato.
2 Kandinsky, 1911.