Larry Lesser: Poem

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Margins

I.

Fermat claimed the margins
of an ancient Greek
text could not contain
his remarkable proof

of a theorem
centuries would finally yield
the wiles to prove
by other means.

II.

Intersectionalities
bring uniqueness near, a long
way from the average
man of Quetelet.

III.

The surgeon took more and more
pancreas:
never finding clarity,
he took it all.

“Beauty of Broken” © Abbe Mogell; used by permission


Art Information

  • “Beauty of Broken” © Abbe Mogell; used by permission.

Larry LesserLarry Lesser has had poems in Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, The Mathematical Intelligencer, CAUSEwebJournal of the Association of Mexican American EducatorsBorderSenses Literary MagazineRio Grande ReviewInk SpotUniversity BluePoetica Magazine, and Drash: Northwest Mosaic. Larry is also an award-winning songwriter with songs on albums by Sababa, Folkus, Ellen M. Wilson, Larry Bach, and himself. For more information about his songwriting, click here.

Larry is the teaching center director and an award-winning professor at The University of Texas at El Paso, where you’ll find his website.

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