O Apollo, play a tune and place a stone for every note
Adjust for each stone the height of the bedding
Such that at the end you have made a brand new wall
For Calvino to tell Kublai in his 'Invisible Cities'.
He will tell of archers manning the foreground
To defend the contents from battlements and sentinels
Against enemies who hold a seige around his people
To take not only walls but their very moments of being.
He will tell of things that stay in the background,
Like the distant bells urging you to kneel down and ask
For the weight to be transferred out of the embodiment
For memory is like the nail holding up the very frame.
The will of man surely runs parallel to the will of God.
That is the assumption of the vertical orientation.
The will of man may not always stay on that course.
That is the assumption of the horizontal orientation.
L'Ortus Conclusus is a closed system of moral meaning.
If there is nothing to say, one ought to remain silent
For in silence, one listens, and sincerely believes
That there is no easier way than to simply obey.
