A hand that seems to prop a leaning tower,
a girl who holds the sun as though a ball,
as if equipped with superhuman power
to carry it just like a thing that’s small.
A couple seemingly inside a shoe,
a ruler used for measuring the moon,
a star atop a crescent-shaped canoe,
a plane ascending from a wee cocoon…
Reality is stretched through forced perspective,
but we can see the truth since we’re perceptive.
A setting sun that’s kicked as if in soccer,
a kitten leaping from a lofty wire,
a foot appearing larger than a walker,
a candle flame that seems a raging fire…
A cloud disguised as ice cream in a cone,
the moon blown like a bubble from a horn,
a stream that seems to flow out of a phone,
a world no bigger than an ear of corn…
Reality is stretched through forced perspective,
but we can see the truth since we’re perceptive.
In photographs, perspectives that are forced,
as when someone appears to hold the sun,
are cool though from reality divorced,
and may be humorous and lots of fun,
but forced perspectives in our minds and views
may not be like the kinds in photographs,
which with surprise and cleverness amuse,
inciting suffering instead of laughs.
Reality is stretched through forced perspective,
but we can see the truth since we’re perceptive.