Early in June it was my privilege to hear poet Lesley Wheeler read as part of the Joaquin Miller Poetry Series on summer Sundays in Washington, DC's Rock Creek Park. Lesley read from her wonderful 2015 collection, Radioland, in which I found this mathy sonnet, a poem of twists and singularities and rich with double meanings:
Concentric Grooves, 1983 by Lesley Wheeler
Every whorl in the floorboard spins clockwise,
the grain widening round the stain, a stream
of years circling a burn-brown knot. Strum
and crackly gap. Music drowns a wheeze
Showing posts with label Lesley Wheeler. Show all posts
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Wednesday, June 29, 2016
Friday, June 18, 2010
Three poems with the word "axiom"
Poems that contain "number" are numerous; those with "axiom" are less easily found. Here are 3 of them -- by 19th century American poet, Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), by Canadian poet and fiction writer, Margaret Atwood (b 1939), and by a poet from Virginia, Lesley Wheeler, whose work I recently have come to know. I particularly enjoy Lesley's poems about parenthood--because they ring true and also because when I was a parent of young children I was not finding time to write.
Labels:
axiom,
chaos,
create,
Emily Dickinson,
equation,
Lesley Wheeler,
Margaret Atwood,
mathematical,
mathematics,
nature,
poem
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