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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Saturday, October 8, 2011
How I won the raffle
Dannie Abse is a deservedly celebrated Welsh poet -- and before his retirement he was also a physician. I first saw "How I Won the Raffle" in Poetry in 1992 -- now it also is included in his collection Be Seated Thou (Sheep Meadow Press, 2000).
How I Won the Raffle by Dannie Abse
After I won the raffle with the number
1079,
the Master of Ceremonies asked me why,
‘Why did you select that particular number?’
How I Won the Raffle by Dannie Abse
After I won the raffle with the number
1079,
the Master of Ceremonies asked me why,
‘Why did you select that particular number?’
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