Michelangelo's Medici Chapel
by Froggie
I entered expectant but unaware...
no idea a space
broken
by a million curves
roundnesses
flat surfaces
a space divided by a master mind
til every hollow
hole
recess
cant and curve
can call,
send its voice, echoing
through other curves and hollows;
the secret chambers of the self;
How did it get here
this silent speech
which whispering
draws the unsuspecting visitor
into the strangeness of a story--
demands a dialogue,
plot and characters unknown,
in a drama buried deep?
in a language never learned?
Try as they may,
no schools unteach
the syntax of this speech.
It lies untouched
by the surfaces of our passing days,
but springs to life in the presence of true genius
like the wind,
the sky
the golden earth,
and now and then
the spirit of great minds. |