Foreshortening

Saint Paul, 28 May 2018

Record growth with a number two pencil on a door frame

Water roars and breaks around rocks in a box canyon stream

Pause before vistas made famous by paintings from a dream

Picture your life lived in houses that are never the same

Black and white photographs in two and a quarter inch squares

Children swing above shadows of imaginary friends

Meaningful minutiae once delegated to parens

Curate sharp impressions into stereographic pairs

Invisible star remains sucked into a black hole

Horizon-less landscapes collapse to a shoebox diorama

Periphery and purview limited but not lacking in drama

You realize your observations are no less profound

Although limited to eraser shavings atop your desk

Imagination the equalizer has purchase without bound

This is a Petrarchan sonnet (Octave is ABBA, ABBA. Sestet is CDD, ECE)