Equation

By Caroline Caddy b. 1944 Caroline Caddy

Someone said

that working through difficult equations

was like walking

in a pure and beautiful landscape –

the numbers glowing

like works of art.

And in the same crowded room

a woman I thought I didn’t like

was singing to herself –

talking and listening

but singing to herself too

and instantly

with the logic of numbers

I liked her

as if she had balanced something

I couldn’t.

The corridors are long and pristine

but I’m not lost –

just working

towards some minute

or overwhelming

equipoise.

Caroline Caddy, “Equation” text from Esperance, Fremantle Press, 2007; audio from The Tibetan Cabinet, Audio CD, River Road Press, 2010: by permission of River Road Press and the poet. Copyright © 2007, 2010 by Caroline Caddy.

Source: Esperance (Fremantle Press, 2007)

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