When we go together, what is the simple form we make?
Who fits our edges snugly, composing a whole?
Whose eye searches the landscape for a focal point?
—Harryette Mullen
DEFINITION
1. A portion of territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains.
2. A sociological aspect of a physical area.
3. A picture representing a real or imaginary scene.
4. A mode of framing, where the horizontal sides are longer than the vertical sides.
5. An oscillation of all of the above: E’scape.
NOTE
— Harryette Mullen, from the poem What Draws Us Together, in Poetry (Nov 2024)
CODA
Question and Answer in the Green Mountains
You ask me why I lived in the green mountains;
I laugh and don't answer — I’m at peace.
Peach blossoms on flowing water go into the distance.
There is another sky and earth not among men.
—Li Bai (701-762 Chinese, trans Arthur Sze)
