The Revd Jim Mcpherson
SLANT
slant’s the charge in Parable’s grenade; the wacky
wisdom known to clowns and prophets who can
snatch a glimpse of Life beyond Death’s stranglehold,
and dare proclaim the Emperor has no clothes
slant’s the foil to one-eyed seeing, that perceives
the markers God has planted in the plane of Entropy
and Time to point beyond, yet can’t resolve their
swirls and almost-patterns; slant’s the offset angle
of the second eye, which allows for solid seeing
so some can glimpse a 3D image starting to cohere
beyond the plane: the Parable enfleshed, the Prince
of Slant – Death’s trophy kill, securing Death’s defeat
Note: “Solid seeing” (stereopsis) names the brain’s ability to coordinate two eyes’ slightly different images into a perception of depth. The Magic Eye images (popularised in the 1990s by Magic Eye Inc) do not require supplementary lenses (as a 3D movie does). However, there is no stereoptic “magic” for those whose second eye is covered or unable to function; slant opens up the truth that can’t be fully seen except for slant.
© the Revd Jim McPherson
Mount Coolum, Qld
First published Anglican Theological Review August 2015
