Line of Thought

We saw an interesting exhibit on the use of line in all sorts of art at MoMA.  Here's a largely free associative poem about different sorts of lines.

                                                                

                                                 Line of Thought

                                    Have you ever watched a power line

                                    dance from pole to pole as you drive

                                    past them in your car (as a passenger-

                                    the driver  must keep his eyes on the road,

                                    risking white line fever as he tears along

                                    the dotted line division between coming

                                    and going)?  It’s like a time line skipping

                                    from moment to moment and not lines

                                    drawn defiantly in the sand, immoveable

                                    until the tide comes in and erases them all.

                                    A straight line is the shortest path between

                                    two points of view but is not the same

                                    thing as a party line on which everyone

                                    talks the same talk, toeing the line

                                    and falling for a line that keeps

                                    curving until it comes back to

                                    where it all began.