GEOMETRY FOR DUMMIES
In a non-collinear
bravery of three,
house finch flush
from viburnum
Three faces of Eve
stained with varied fruit
You are oblique, I acute--
the spouse is obtuse
Triangulations ratchet,
so posit a wheel--
to crank, crash:
a textbook burn
HERR KEPLER'S NOTEBOOK
Time is the bully anchor of the opposing tug-rope team.
The person with a happy home life tracks glitter through the world; the solitary person leaves snowprints.
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"The grasshopper warbler's song comes up out of the earth just as you think the day is quietening down. It has no prelude or warm-up: it starts midperformance, as if switched on by the dark, as it if has been singing like this beneath the earth until it was dark enough to come to the surface. As if, though we hardly hear it, this singing never stops."
A Year on the Wing (Tim Dee)
All writing and cartoons on this site copyright 2008-2010 Julia Martin, unless otherwise credited.
The person with a happy home life tracks glitter through the world; the solitary person leaves snowprints.
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"The grasshopper warbler's song comes up out of the earth just as you think the day is quietening down. It has no prelude or warm-up: it starts midperformance, as if switched on by the dark, as it if has been singing like this beneath the earth until it was dark enough to come to the surface. As if, though we hardly hear it, this singing never stops."
A Year on the Wing (Tim Dee)
All writing and cartoons on this site copyright 2008-2010 Julia Martin, unless otherwise credited.
Oh dear :-)
ReplyDeleteI love how much weight each word carries in your poems. I find myself mouthing "crank, crash," and sucking on the marrow of those two words for a long time.
(my word verification was "nonce"! I kid you not.)
ReplyDeleteWho needs Chinese characters in a world with anti-spam prompts, eh? "Nonce" is wonderful, although difficult to use without the modern fillip of insouciance and Noel Cowardism.
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