The hands of the trees turn colour wise.
In the earth the seed ticks.
I know its heliotropic life lies underfoot,
gently probing the future.
The territorial blackbird interrupts,
assaulting numb borders,
pecking composure—
a mad pianist at the windowsill.
Sentenced to arithmetic,
the fly traces eternal eights.
There is no rest in fractals:
not on the bright copper strip of bricks
not on the glazed concrete of black ice
effervescent with silver.
To break out into deep cirrus
where the Kererū soars
to the zenith of you—
it turns to you,
as every leaf turns to you.
Gregory Minissale
Gregory Minissale is Professor of Art History at the University of Auckland | Waipapa Taumata Rau. He specialises in the phenomenology of art informed by psychological, philosophical, intercultural, and queer perspectives. Gregory is the author of several books. Recent titles include Rhythm in Art, Psychology and New Materialism (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and The Psychology of Contemporary Art (Cambridge University Press, 2015).