Commentary Line 137 Lemniscate (+ cloutish query)

[sZ]

>>>If there really is a figure eight, could it have been made by a unicycle?
That too would be a challenge and I don't know whether it would be easier
or harder than using a bicycle. At least the problem of getting the rear
wheel to follow the front wheel's track would be eliminated.<<<

The poem says 'Bicycle tires,' and the way those words are tossed in
after the ryhme is sloppy, like a lemniscate made with a two-wheeler.
A lemniscate can be made in the sand without the wheels being in the
same track. The line would be wider, but repeating the path enough
times would result in a large, thick lemniscate.

By the way, what does 'cloutish' mean? One of the definitions of
'clout' is a powerful baseball hit, so it's an intriguing descriptor for
Shade. I just realized I had been reading it as 'loutish.'

>From hourglass with gravity-pulled grains of sand
To the infinity of stars
To gravity-fighting bi-cycle lemniscate on grains of sand
To tin toy clock-work
To boy-pulled uni-cycle barrow
To bi-hemispheric sunburst
To shadow distribution through space and time