In the spirit of assessment and introspection that captures many of us at year-end, I offer a small poem, "Good Fortune" -- one that I wrote in late December ten years ago when I was, as I am now, taking stock. "Good Fortune" appeared in my 2006 chapbook, My Dance Is Mathematics (Paper Kite Press -- available online here). Another tiny poem, a more recent one, "14 Syllables" -- from Red Has No Reason (Plain View Press, 2010) -- continues the focus on assessment using numbers.
Good Fortune by JoAnne Growney
is good numbers—
the length of a furrow,
the count of years,
the depth of a broken heart,
the cost of camouflage,
the volume of tears.
14 Syllables (from Red Has No Reason by JoAnne Growney)
A hen lays eggs
one by one;
the way you
count life
is life.
Happy New Year, 2012!
I hope to see many friends at the 2012 Joint Mathematics Meetings --
PLEASE COME to the POETRY READING
on Friday, January 6 at 5 PM in Room 312 at Boston's Hynes Auditorium --
sponsored by the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics.
I hope to see many friends at the 2012 Joint Mathematics Meetings --
PLEASE COME to the POETRY READING
on Friday, January 6 at 5 PM in Room 312 at Boston's Hynes Auditorium --
sponsored by the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics.
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