Short Squaring Poems

Laws restrict
but can’t constrain
What happens freely
the light reclaims    
     
Cause and effect
together apart
Squaring the circle
—the horse and the cart

(Dreamsleep: March, 2023)...

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Nine o’clock dark
Stage for shark swim
Deep arc stakeout

Sailors phishing
Not squaring news
Sparing no one

Once debutante 
Vessel vaunt sinks
For daunt of men

Dawns a new day
Silent gray-blue
Sea fray absconds...

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the noun become a verb
and verb become a noun
old english now new and
vice versa what is worse
than this verse a known
explanation a way to be
rid of vexation so presto
bang rid of the  fang but
it is the  gain in the long
run just wait see you me
can be friends having fun...

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Busy square around me sucking me inside
Keeping me from seeing what's on the outside
Building shell surrounds me squared off like a hide
Standing on a corner; a square; a block; that's wide

Quilted district patterns are mapped across the land
while larger squares protruding shows zoning had a hand
Suburbs of the city squaring boundaries they have spanned
When all that's left are gullies squared by nature that are fanned....

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Zero to the thousandth power
logic on the run
Oblongata left in pieces
nothing zero-sum

Squaring the root unto itself
Euclid at the cliff
A equals B as B disappears
the quotient nondescript

Hickory Dickory’s mouse on the run
though nimble Jack gets burned 
Formulas crumbling as integers balk
what’s ‘given’ mocked and spurned

Zero to the thousandth power
reason clones its fear
Classical thought—not selling or bought
Pythagorean tears

(36th & Chestnut Sts: September, 2023)...

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