Aaron Fogel is the author of The Printer's Error (Miami University Press, 2001).
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The Riddle of Flat Circles [excerpt]
The Romans got their circling powers From a corps of Hellenic mathematicians. Rome--the container-skull, the fountainhead-- Lookout holes calling itself Reason. Against her Spain--Maya uprisings--against that grip-- People with terra cotta plus bluegrass flesh-- Flights, transhumance y more or less dispoblado. Two conch-shaped continents boisterously Romesqued. The merry die young. The sad, guarded And anxious live long lives. The really grim Are immortal. Continue the anti-anti-census. Capitulate to no Romes. Heliodemography is the study of the population Of the sun. Mrs. Smith lives there with the Mister. Through an art-of-the-state telescope Iris observes Cantilevered Yiddish’s stern stars.
Poem from The Printer's Error, reprinted with permission of Miami University Press
Poem from The Printer's Error, reprinted with permission of Miami University Press
Aaron Fogel
Aaron Fogel is the author of The Printer's Error (Miami University Press, 2001).