Poems thrive on imagery created from specific (rather than vague) details -- and numbers and other math terms are very specific! Below I present several samples of mathematical imagery in poems from an excellent and important recent anthology Raising Lilly Ledbetter: Women Poets Occupy the Workspace.
Here are the opening lines of "Circle of Silence" by Stacey K. Vargas:
Like an electron trapped in an unstable orbit, I am seated
in a circle of powerful men.
In an awkward moment small talk ends
and the meeting abruptly begins.
The superintendent turns to me and says,
"This was not sexual harassment."
And the opening lines of "The Typist" by Barbara Drake:
I made 87 1/2 cents an hour typing,
when I was a college student.
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Thursday, June 16, 2016
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