Maze - You Are Here (3) Poem by Michèle Métail

on the map, town's flattening
you are here, in the empty circle
encircled, red and carmine circle
image of hypotheses projected
in the calculated point of sphere, here
on the unreadable surface of place
locating the visible area
duly captioned for the observer
for disoriented, this cardinal emptiness
distorted traces of the view
through, imaginary grid
and without depth to say, here circle
with reduced scale, must crush
and go downtown, stealing away