Perspective.(Poem)

The Christian Century | July 11, 2006| | Copyright

 
Perspective 
 
   In medieval paintings, the cobbler stood just inches high 
   beside the saints, who rose like water towers, 
   until Brunelleschi thought up single point perspective, 
 
   and proved it, lines receding to a speck on the horizon. 
       Once people saw it, they couldn't forget: 
   the statues and churches kneeling to just one lover. 
 
   How thrilling! To stand at the commanding point. 
       Each of us at the center! It's the great 
   myth of the personal. Dutiful art teachers swung 
 
   the myth in buckets to the next teachers 
       until generations ...

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