Some Chariots

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

from The Celtic Tarot by Lo Scarabeo & Saverio Tenuta

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