Virginia poet Bernadette Geyer has a new (2013) poetry book, The Scabbard of Her Throat -- and I have been exploring these engaging poems of family and fantasy. And finding among them this mathy poem, "Odds":
Odds by Bernadette Geyer
Eighty percent of all plane crashes occur in the first
three minutes or in the last minute of the flight.
The odds of winning the lottery are 1 in 18 million
but you can't win if you don't play. In Peru,
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Sunday, March 31, 2013
What are the odds -- of a kiss?
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