Kevin Varrone

 

Four poems from intercalaries

KNOWLEDGE
nature is big.
the universe, one equal blossom.
there’s a big difference.
the archtiect learned inspiration.
he copied physics. he listened to desire.


ORDER
order wasn’t order.
I tried to find order. I covered
time, then words.
I said “O.”
I felt something.
I stopped.


THE TEACHER
I had no idea, you see, the paths
of modern happiness
would transform my past into
an idle psalm.


PLACE
an ark,
a beckon, a eulogizing.
a hill for all hills
place for all places
a temple for all temples.
place is positioning you see.



*all source text from John Lobell's Between Silence and Light: Spirit in the Architecture of Louis I. Kahn.