The Integers Are Not a Happy Medium
When I arrive
you are already there
waiting
a shadow swiftly fleets across your brow
The integers are not a happy medium
you say by way of greeting
They fly which way
scatter without restraint
fritter through fingers faster
than one can count the gains
And you are late again
Forward to the Beginning
The difference between
a polyp and a tumor
is like the difference
between a polynomial
and a continuous function
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How did I get from there to here
when all my relatives
gathering their brood around them
parted the tents’ flaps
and looking up
toward the mountain top
saw Moses’ face
beam down
from
above
*
Cotton-mouth do not bite
the apple was sour
*
I do not want to be a rib
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Art Information
- “Fire and Ice” © Niels Langeveld; used by permission.
Sarah Glaz is professor of mathematics at the University of Connecticut specializing in the area of commutative algebra. She also has a lifelong interest in poetry, serves as associate editor for the Journal of Mathematics and the Arts, coedited the poetry anthology Strange Attractors: Poems of Love and Mathematics (A. K. Peters/CRC Press, 2008), is the editor of the Bridges Poetry Anthologies, and has published poems and translations in both mathematical and literary periodicals.
For more information, visit Sarah Glaz's website.
