LATITUDE
Mercator a map
maker a shaper
of great currents of
continents on paper
seen from whatever
angle resembled
a tangle of embryos
half-formed reassembled
near strangled by
circulus equinoctialis
tropicus capricorni, swaddling
bands of a terra infantilis
born out of theodolite
imagination
and the declivity of
faint constellation
grown to surprising
stature? on paper
by nature a proper
tantrumtaker!
Mercator a map
maker a shaper
of great currents of
continents on paper
seen from whatever
angle resembled
a tangle of embryos
half-formed reassembled
near strangled by
circulus equinoctialis
tropicus capricorni, swaddling
bands of a terra infantilis
born out of theodolite
imagination
and the declivity of
faint constellation
grown to surprising
stature? on paper
by nature a proper
tantrumtaker!