Aurochs to Zorra

Ovality

Ovality


It’s …

No mere circle
   where tethered horses tread its track.
No common square
   where corners hide the secrets and the dust.
No prick pointed triangle
   that perfects the number 3.
No mere lines
   dividing me from thee, never speaking of us.
No rhomboid, quadrilateral or trapezoid
   to trap in geometric pain.
No pentagon, no hexagon, no octagon
   to play the numbered game.
Within the race of life,
   round and round it goes,
greeting faces new and old
   that gather by its oblong dented form,
embracing all
   within the length and breadth and depth

… of its ovality.


© Kåre Enga

ovality: the quality or state of being oval.