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Perfect Forms

Ralph Monday

The glass of wine, transparent as a dragonfly’s
wings, held in her hand by the stem, became a
catalyst for form. She sipped but would have
preferred a drink from Lethe.

Was Plato right?

Her musings centered physically on the chardonnay,
a momentary meditation seeking the Sphinx’s riddle.

I mean all this is shadow. We see only the illusion
of the real, the form.

The perfect form of a chair, a table, wineglass,
triangle in the mind? No, external to mind, to space,
time, unchanging.

Thingness in and of itself, by itself, with itself.
We but mime with the mimes.

The dark crow in a stubbled field, the owl that
spies the mouse, lover’s sigh, the night train,
beads, gongs, Victorian buttons, a Puritan
poem, to satirize the caricatures all about,
this then is the blind travesty playing the
joker’s song.

All perfect in their forms beyond the world’s
shattered glass. Is there, then, the form of the
perfect divorce?

They clinked glasses.

I suppose we will find out.

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