Curvature

Curvature: a word that embodies a great deal in only nine letters of the alphabet. Its simplicity, beauty, and fluidity are synonymous with and in a multitude of descriptive phrases, limitless in interpretation.

Sleek, supple, sublime

In the turn of an elbow or

The bend of a knee,

With the rippling arch of a spine,

Moving across the incurve

Of rounded buttocks or breasts,

In the spin of a curling hair,

Found in the crook of an arm,

Or as the body bestows a bow

In greeting or thanks,

Along a meandering roadway,,

With the evolving movement

discovered in the step

Of a graceful dancer,

As light refracts and reflects

To form a cascading rainbow

Of continuous colors,

With the sweeping swerve

Of an artist's paintbrush,

Seen in a swirl of smoke,

The collective coils of a rope,

In the wind’s embrace,

And the softest whisper,

As a swerving tree limb

Lifts leaves and blossoms

To the sky,

Along the slope of a hill

And a mountain,

Or ever steady

and present

In the woven tale

Created in the circle of life.