Sunday, March 15, 2015

For Karen on Pi Day

The Mathematician
                        to Karen Marie Thompson Medhi (1960-2014)

this

she

knew this

she understood: one

twist to a Möbius strip

and we enter infinity. This she knew just

as pinecones and sunflowers know of endless, elegant patterns – reliable, predictable order, she

must have found a golden serenity in this ubiquitous array of spiraling pairs: life and death. Having come to be, she

will never come not to be. Imperishable one – once fire, now wind – she

knew what fragile guests we are on this

Earth, irrational nature, we all

die so we

might live

illimitable

she



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