tracing the curve

From: Diane Hodges (dhodges@ceo.cudenver.edu)
Date: Fri Dec 03 1999 - 20:59:04 PST


The trace of a curve

To substitute an equation for a figure consists, therefore, in seeing the
actual position of the moving points in the tracing of the curve at any
moment whatever, instead of regarding this tracing all at once, gathered
up in the unique moment when the curve has reached its finished state.
Henri Bergson, “Creative Evolution,” (1911)

this body of water arches, dips, a spine dissolving to a curve,

rippled with her touch, a hand upon the surface
like a dewdrop hangs from leaf, or shimmers from the silver web
drawn between a lush of cedars, intertwined beneath
the spongy soil.
her hand a current murmuring this endless caress,
wending along the curves that this body coaxed in the enduring,
flesh not from age but through living.

pouring into this mouth, lips like soft willow leaves weeping into mine,
this body of water welcomed her roaming, drank her touch like rain,
memorized the streams of her hands on this skin, her body in this body of
water,
merging into seas.

in the stillness of the rhythmic pattern of my beating heart
I still hear the sounds of her caress, the echoes of our ebb, and flow,
the whispers of how loving
lives in the touch of a hand that traces the curve.



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