This morning air breathes ancient memories.
Reflecting light recalls our world’s first day.
Wind creaking walls echoes great Socrates
answering questions with questions to praise
the gods and teach us to think. How shall we
live? A while back, watching your reflecting
eyes study your sunlit hair’s split ends, he
saw Helen sailing to Troy, protecting
her sacred skin with veils from the goddess
Aphrodite. How shall we live? Euclid
realized how each eye’s discrete ray blessed
vision through angles. Human vision hid
from Homer, but not the gods’ perspective.
Behind his glazed lens he saw how we live.
Roger Armbrust
July 23, 2015
