Poetic Locus Versus Mathematical Focus

Two activities I love have a similarity, To experience and conjecture in verse, And to explore limits of certainty. Rhyme and meter, whether wordy or terse, Enact seeing freshly, banning banality. Math proofs are finding a needle in a hay source, Needing imagination to reach finality. Many school veterans curse, “Algebra is not daily reality!” “Trigonometry makes life worse!” But poetry and math have a commonality, They both tease out how the world works, Neither rewards conventionality, Both work by seeing the diverse. I admit rote formulas draw my enmity, Whether in word or number universe. I’ve found in sonnets and theorems an equality, If you disagree, you can rightfully call this poem a hearse.