Based on the analysis of a poem by Michael Batalla, the chapter reflects on the relationship between geographical knowledge and the experience of space, particularly through travel. It also examines the potential of poetic writing as a vehicle for knowledge about the territory. The poem entitled “Europe, the horizon … are in a boat” mobilizes a wide spectrum of writing modes and uses typography creatively. It is a meditation on the nature of the European continent, captured through the evocation of the author’s travel memories. We show how allusions to cartography and invisible lines drawn by geodesy are mixed with the recollection of intimate experiences, thus staging the tension between scientifically constructed knowledge and lived geography. We analyze the motif of the line that runs through the entire poem. Its metamorphoses echo the multiple movements that agitate the poem, between times and places, so that the image of Europe is grasped as if through a kaleidoscope, whose unity seems to depend solely on the stitching together of the movements through which it is traversed. Hence, a geometric fiction is constructed that functions very differently from logical reasoning and cartography, and in which the lines are not obstacles but possible paths.