Rusty Lynn
Euclid Can’t Dance
Inspiration Piece
Euclid Can Dance
By Neil Ellman
Response
Euclid never said
He could dance
Or was inspired
By Terpsichore
But he could calculate
The rhythm
Of a square
The swaying of a line
From point to point.
“A line
Is a breadthless length,”
He said
As he breathlessly danced
To the lute and lyre
The distance along
The circumference
Of a spinning gyre
In circles he danced
In endless lines
In angular turns
Triangular steps
To the metrics
That could
Describe the world.
Plato said
That dance could say
In other ways
The words that need be said;
Euclid, the numbers
That choreograph
The universe.
Oh, Muse,
How he could dance.
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This pairing shows why this is such a remarkable project. Both of these works stand alone admirably, but when they’re put together they make one breathtaking multidimensional piece of art.