The sonnet is a song of the body as well as of the mind:
14 breaths
5 heartbeats each breath
5 heartbeats each breath
A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to be part of a poetry reading that also featured Rick Mullin -- who serves science as an editor of the Chemical and Engineering News -- and whose latest poetry book is a collection of sonnets that offer a magical and musical retelling of Darwin's voyage -- in Sonnets from The Voyage of the Beagle (Dos Madres Press, 2014). Here are two selections from that collection -- the opening sonnet (first of a triptych) and a later one that features geometry of birds.
After Uranus by Rick Mullin
On reading Richard Holmes
I
There was an age when poetry and science
shared the province of discovery,
when Coleridge wished he's studied chemistry
and Humphry Davy, in exact defiance
of the Royal Society, blew things up.