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Like the arrow and the bow - natural systems rely on tension of opposite forces in order to activate them, to give them a form of perpetual motion. "The Greeks saw their gods in human form and this was the key to seeing divine beauty in ordinary humanity. In other ancient cultures nakedness was shameful. For the Greeks, the unadorned human body became a vehicle for ideals and a vision of human possibility."

Sculpture: Myron, Discobolus, c. 450 BC

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The Bow

Possession is a concept that hangs in the air That’s a dream given form Between the is and the is not The meanings that arrive The ways you promise what you lack

The Greeks understood that life is organized — as tension And that our bodies, like our souls, A skeleton with wings Always slip from absent hands

Memory unearths This visitor from the wrong side of the mirror An enormous misunderstanding at the very foundations That can never be resolved

Cream and honey colored stone Time compresses into flashes The lock that only fits the key The long chain

We create because nothing is ever enough Nothing is ever finished All threads entangled beyond all names’ returning; The arrow and the bow in the flower of everything

Unknown photographer, Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Biagio, interior, 1518–1540