Smooth Contours are the Best
Smooth contours are the best things in the world,
The universe in fact. Who wants the straight
When you can have the circular, the curled,
The bent and curved? That box would be a crate
(The Taj Mahal) without its graceful domes.
If forced to choose between the black Sears Tower
And Greek divinities’ round columned homes,
Who would seriously consider the glower
Of harsh edged blackness good as fluted stone?
In Gehry it’s the falcate shapes and not
The straight-edge tiles that make the smiling zone
Inside us. Nature says that straight is blot.
..Everywhere we look there’s lovely bowing,
….Arcs, ovals, orbits, moon sphere shapes . . . glowing.