Three Icarian Episodes
after Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book VIII
Carey Scott Wilkerson
Samos
Between flight is a recursion of known
is how in every spherical a gloss a fold
else the curious further only quilting,
only sensing night a version if sewn
twelve tones into which claims it retrieves
projection across sweep into thus a spline
as on might as tablature seize descending
is here one supposes quite quiver thralling
toward although from if as if as ending
in the quadratic, in the seas, in a plex.
Delos to Paros
Upon double evince past isle of Crete causative
implacement songs’ cold restraint a density to
spool a curl beyond history’s also reading vein,
a blue nimbus in row retrogression’s written
factorials and secrecy on the pattern whirled,
turned within fictives the charge of telescopes
within contrapositive or splice never as of
now as of modulo has obviously none that.
Memory if such a keep reels toward sun
finding whether over the Aegean affix.
Lebinthus to Calymne
Similar floods frame loops miracula is one
nor as movement will prove multimoda is two
as your fabula your trust your lines in three reasoning
gestures a group theoretical point en plain air
on the planet surface just as to fly or to be in
as maps are as lines if indeed this will have been
programmatic marbles too simply a curvature lost
lyrical anatomies in lessons of quiet light
for doomed Icarus seeming a recombinant
and twirling logos falls under what sky is and is.
Carey Scott Wilkerson is a poet, dramatist, and performance theorist. His books include a collection of poems, Ars Minotaurica, and a play, Seven Dreams of Falling, which premiered in summer 2013 at the Lillian Theatre’s Elephant Studio in Los Angeles. Carey Scott Wilkerson is online at CareyScottWilkerson.com.
