Mathematical Reasoning

Mathematical Reasoning

I should have paid more attention.
I didn’t know there were so many
degrees of pain, angled projections
embedded in non-Euclidean space
that spiral into infinity, unfolding,
reassembling the balance of power
into heart shaped consternations,
fossilized in time, silent in space,
setting mosaics of bones and sinews,
casting canopies of cottons and cradles,
all anchored to the earth by cruelty.