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Easy Math

2, like all primes, fascinates
2^3, it seems, comes to eight
3, the next prime right in line, 
3^2 [2 primes] = nine,  
^2: Exponentiated,
x3: multiplicated.
Still it's 9?vindicated

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Quadratic

minus b

plus or minus root(b squared

minus four times a times c) — all above divided

by two times a — this is the quadratic formula and is absolutely correct

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Calaveras Explained

Calaveras' famous frog was astounding
In contests never beaten at bounding
But a gambler's ruse
In the frog did infuse
Lead shot that kept him a groundling

The con artist disappeared south
Froggy's owner poured shot from its mouth
His face fiery red
He examined the lead
That had made his wallet a drouth

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Simplify

simplify, he said,
simplify, simplify all—
ah—thoraeu's lemma

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Biology

The
enduring
Shasta daisy—
Easy to grow,
Invasively spreads in the 
garden. 

With little or no encouragement 
it will take
over whole plots. Standing tall, 
flaunting a pure white flower; 
nothing eats it. 

Luther Burbank took some 
fifteen years getting the purest 
white color he loved by old 
fashioned genetic engineering 
of four species. 

Look closely at the flower's 
gorgeous, yellow center. See 
the perfect whorl. Count the 
petals. For my flowers I often 
find thirty four. Could Luther 
have counted or would he have 
cared? Fibonacci—biology.

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Bird Feeder

robin watching
throng of juncos 
backyard dances

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What's In a Name

Haiku equals Math
A Binomial title
Syllabically

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Horror: Haiku

spring morning
little girl holds out a daisy
to a monster

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Arc

arc - parabola
life - our parabolic bow 
ends that never meet

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Nau-Til-Us: An Approximate Creature

Nautilus, chambered. 
Mathematics? Not really. 
By nature only. 

Smells more like…
Ah…normal distribution
(Of golden spirals). 

You could look it up. 
FIBONACCI? Not really. 
Logarithmic coil?

Not exactly. Else
One or the other would fit. 
Only nature fits.