April -- Celebrate BOTH Mathematics and Poetry

       April is National Poetry Month AND National Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month -- and here in this blog we continue to celebrate poetry-math connections.  Below I offer the opening stanzas of an old poem of mine entitled "Time".

          The clock goes round --
          making time a circle
          rather than a line.
          Each year's return to spring
          layers time on time.

          Circle or line -- 

          no difference.  Wrap

          the line around a rim,
          tuck the loose ends in,
          or cut the circle, stretch it thin --

          breaking an appointment,
          or separating bites of lunch.
          If the slit is not at midnight,
          visit darkness by going back
          or skip from light to light.

      A second part of "Time" is available here.  The entire poem is available in Red Has No Reason (Plain View Press, 2010).