Circumference: a love poem by Lana Hechtman Ayers
x = 2 π r
is what circulates
but does not equal
what’s in my heart—
your smile that goes on
forever, irrational.
A relationship traverses
linear space,
finite
like everything
except the irrational—
π and your smile
upon seeing me come near.
And we can speak of area,
the space inside,
y = π r²
as finite even though,
like love, it contains
the infinite, the irrational.
. . .
The full text of "Circumference: a love poem" is found in Ayers' collection, Chicken Farmer I Still Love You (D-N Publishing, 2007).
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