This poem by California poet and scientist Lucille Lang Day weaves a shifting display of images -- the flight patterns of birds made vivid with mathematical terminology. As the poet's observations meander, they build to a question: is a galaxy something like a sparrow?
Form/Formless by Lucille Lang Day
A flock of red-winged blackbirds
swooping and swirling
in cyclonic and anticyclonic patterns
always in motion like Jovian clouds
that appear, then disappear
according to the mathematics of chaos
in yellow, brown and salmon-colored layers
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Wednesday, May 22, 2013
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