If I were paddling a green canoe
traveling a rate of x miles
per hour and you were
in a blue canoe traveling
at a rate of y miles per hour,
and the rate of the stream
was a given, which already
we know is a lie,
how hard would I need
to paddle, in which force equals
d, to make the canoe
a field of rye where we are
wading through golden
waist-high grass
and no longer traveling
in separate canoes?
And let’s say the field
had a breeze travelling
from the west at p miles per hour,
then if I tossed you a dream
and you were standing
due east of me, how long
would it take the dream
to reach you? I know,
not enough facts, and
I have included too many
irrelevant details,
though we both know they’re essential.
This is why math is only good
for certain kinds of problems.
Of course the field was golden.
Though I wouldn’t mind
if it were green, if there
were blue flax flowers
bobbing in the breeze,
a whole river of them
nodding at us as if to say,
yes, that’s right, it doesn’t
make sense, that’s okay,
that’s okay.
It makes perfect sense, not just because I just dug myself out of a pile of physics homework, sadly enough…but because sometimes what seems to be too unrelated makes perfect sense in the mind, to the soul, and that’s what poetry, at times, manages to do.
Amazing piece, thank you for sharing.
Hey, thanks for this comment was the part about the homework true? Or you wish you had physics homework?
Yes, sometimes it makes perfect sense, illogical though it is 🙂 r
From: “comment-reply@wordpress.com” Reply-To: Date: Wednesday, March 2, 2016 at 11:39 PM To: Rosemerry Trommer Subject: [A Hundred Falling Veils] Comment: “Story Problem”
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Ha-ha, I’m a college student, we never wish for homework. But because of my physics background, I was able to catch along with what you were saying in this piece. And I was also working on my physics homework while I read this
Ha! Well, not being a college student any longer, I sometimes long for the days of homework maybe not physics homework, though 🙂 r
From: “comment-reply@wordpress.com” Reply-To: Date: Saturday, March 5, 2016 at 12:33 PM To: Rosemerry Trommer Subject: [A Hundred Falling Veils] Comment: “Story Problem”
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Wow, you should do my homework for me, haha.
Um, you want to raise my kids for me? Hee hee.
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Okay, you win
good one. hereâs one for you
Hey dear Alan, The attachment didnât come through ⦠send it to my email, please? Xo r
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Now this is the kind of math I understand, and the kind of math I wish others would understand (the square root of too).