Mathematics & Metaphor

Consider the magic of numbers

how they multiply and divide

clothed in symbols

Consider 

nine times nine

and know my age

Consider the sinuous shape of an integral sign

inferencing meaning from ambiguity

metaphor making magic

a digital twin that can 

be imagined

or re-imagined as a woven sheet

where nodes are interconnected

like so many cobwebs on a hedge

in the morning dew

Consider the wisdom of an integral

a value of all that you have known

perhaps St. Peter checks

Consider a thicket of dark spiked holly

green thick with red berries

then feel its pricks

as you push past its leaves

on an overgrown path that leads to a gate

that opens to poetry

Dick Russell © Richard M Russell

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