Always behind my back I hear
The spastic clicking of jerked knees
And other automatic reactions
Tracking me through the years to where
Time’s winged chariot is double
Parked near the eternity frontier
And in such moments I want to participate
In human life less and less
But when I do the obligatory double take
And glance behind me into the dark green future
All I see stretching out are vast
Arizona republics of more
-"Human Life" by Tom Clark
from the Cary-Yale Visconti deck, Milan
mid-1400s
from the Jacque Vieville deck, France
mid-1600s
from Salvador Dali's deck, released in 1984
from The New Tarot by Hurley, Hurley, and Horler
California, 1974
from The Housewives Tarot
(apparently contemporary)
from Sacred India deck by Rohit Arya
2000
from the Hexen 2.0 deck by Suzanne Treister
from a project by fragOcon here on deviantart
added on 2010
from the Voyager Tarot by James Wanless
1986
from the Amano Deck by Yoshitaka Amano, 1991
Here is where
You can get nowhere
Faster than ever
As you go under
Deeper and deeper
In the fertile smother
Of another acre
Like any other
You can’t peer over
And then another
And everywhere
You veer or hare
There you are
Farther and farther
Afield than before
But on you blunder
In the verdant meander
As if the answer
To looking for cover
Were to bewilder
Your inner minotaur
And near and far were
Neither here nor there
And where you are
Is where you were
-"Corn Maze" by David Barber