There is No Such Geometry

There is No Such Geometry

Katherine Lee

We were told that love is
scaffolded by similarity
that a plow will veer
when its yokefellows
are unequal.
But you and I are
scalene
not just in tastes
and habits
and rhythms
but in deep vector-energies.
So can we
please God
give up on
the childish fantasy
of equilaterals?
That geometry never
runs between two souls.
God knew that
if you and I
shot out
straight and sharp and equidistant
from true longing,
like two parallel rays,
we’d never intersect
to make angles
and shapes
irregular and wondrous
powerful enough
to bend and join
a pair of lonesome arrows
into one supple curve.

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Katherine Lee
Poet

Katherine has been published in Christianity Today and Fuller Magazine. Her poetry has been recited at the Los Angeles Cathedral’s Festival of Worship and she wrote the historical pageant featured at the 2010 Lausanne Congress. You can read more of her work on her IG page @okkatherinelee

Photography by Klim Musalimov