Dorothy Porter
This poem is from Australian poet Dorothy Porter's last anthology called 'Bee Hut'
J D Mackenzie has written a poem 'Goose at Counting Zeros' for POW prompt 18 which expresses similar sentiments.Take a look. http://jdmackenzie.blogspot.com
NUMBERS
I get magic
(sometimes I get more
than I bargain for)
but I don't get
numbers
Numbers do worse
than humiliate
or elude me
they don't add up
I am no algebra tart
ravished
by the meretricious music
of the spheres
My eyes and nose
never streamed
with incontinent ectasy
through geometry classes
as my disastrous triangles
collapsed in a cacophany
around me
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