Choosing a shape for a poem leads to restrictions on the numbers and lengths of words -- and sometimes this generously promotes creativity. Moving through the chilly winter season, I have discovered this poem -- "The Six-Cornered Snowflake" in POETRY (December, 1989) by poet and editor John Frederick Nims (1913-99). ENJOY!
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Thursday, April 10, 2014
Fractal Geometry
Lee Felice Pinkas is one of the founding editors of cellpoems -- a poetry journal distributed via text message. I found her poem,"The Fractal Geometry of Nature" in the Winter/Spring 2009 Issue (vol.14, no 1) of Crab Orchard Review.
The Fractal Geometry of Nature by Lee Felice Pinkas
Most emphatically, I do not consider
the fractal point of view as a panacea. . .
--Benoit Mandelbrot (1924-2010)
Father of fractals, we were foolish
to expect a light-show from you,
hoping your speech would fold upon itself
and mimic patterns too complex for Euclid.
The Fractal Geometry of Nature by Lee Felice Pinkas
Most emphatically, I do not consider
the fractal point of view as a panacea. . .
--Benoit Mandelbrot (1924-2010)
Father of fractals, we were foolish
to expect a light-show from you,
hoping your speech would fold upon itself
and mimic patterns too complex for Euclid.
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