Monday, March 03, 2014

Cartography



Grave
            Graven
                        Gravura
            Gravitas.
Graver.
            Engraver.

A typeface based on copperplate style,
Calligraphy
            Caliph
Cartography,
The maps of the heart show our provenance,
The journeys we’ve made, what we bring,
What we have gained.
Script
If not scrimshaw
Scroll work
Engravings
Engrained
Carving bone or ivory
Harvesting whalers’
Handiwork, byproduct of
What our DNA brings forward
As if carved into our
Choices as we make them,
Plainly
Once we open our eyes
As we take that one step at a time.

Don’t wait.

If scrolls are not read
When they’re ready they become relics,
Turned to stone and bone fragments
To be pieced together by
Men
Women
of another time,
Whiling away a present to seek
Seeds of a story they have
Forgotten.
           
Scrimshaw.

            Harvest.


from my new book

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