- Leaving my room on Obere Neckarstraße 5, to
- Stroll down Fishergaße, my gaze
- rests on a cascade of red ceramic tiled roofs
- Their texture - tiered carmine against varietal asperity-
- reminds me abstractly of something.
- Passing up the castle hill,
- Winding my way through an accumulation of thoughts
- Strewn there recently by Immanuel Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason":
- First Division of the Transcendental Analytic:
- A priori concepts are such pure knowledge as exists
- independently of sensual perception.
- Synthesis is the freedom to put together separate
- a priori concepts.
- Reaching the castle wall's outer corner, the
- Slightly angled Heiliggeistkirche swings its
- fossilized, reptilian tail
- Encompassed by the Altstadt crawling below
- like a parade of coprolite ants
- While the Neckar river processional is closely flanked by its bridal party of hills.
- And the bridal party - their heads adorned in heather-toned tresses
- embellished with dark fir ornaments
- Together in retinue personify determinism
- and synthetic creativity
- portrayed as texture.
- Texture which holds an abstraction of the soul's
- inner landscape as math's pure concept of
- triangle is to the face of a Pyramid.
- A landscape which even now progresses
- molded by
- and thereby retaining all past and present relationships.
March, 1997