After a painting by Louise Smith

How long have you waited 

to make me see this by accident

the way the moon is always between 

any number of stone stoplights.

The ground is covered with math like that

in this city built of seeing

under the sky in a blue cross

between your two hands. Tau,

the third thing,

between us too, that makes the whole

Kether, crown, completion.

They say Qabala came from the Greek

but Qabala is not scholarship.

The book that matters is being written still

and today the great polymaths 

of Renaissance systematic science

have finally begun 

to speak themselves in paint. 

What they always meant but couldn't

say, the name that calls her back

because this is the name she left

sign and seal she sailed out from under

on smooth Aegean, Atlantic, bathtub

to mysterious Greenland.

Was Atlantis in Chicago,

the salt of her primordial sea?