The Story of mathematics
Sarah Dickenson Snyder
It starts with a shell –
its curve and shine,
the way a line peaks.
It starts with a star
and the arc
between bone and light.
An angled story
never ending –
a book blooming,
the gnarled woody parts
peeled to reveal the tender.
So much hardens
from the outside –
the denominator
of rain and sun
and unseen roots.
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Sarah Dickenson Snyder has written poetry since she knew there was a form with conscious line breaks. She has three poetry collections, The Human Contract (2017), Notes from a Nomad (nominated for the Massachusetts Book Awards 2018), and With a Polaroid Camera (2019). Recently, poems appeared in Artemis, Rattle, The Sewanee Review, and RHINO. A 30/30 Poet for Tupelo Press, she was accepted both times she applied to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. One poem was selected by Mass Poetry Festival Migration Contest to be stenciled on the sidewalk in Salem, MA, another nominated for Best of Net 2017. https://sarahdickensonsnyder.com/
It starts with a shell –
its curve and shine,
the way a line peaks.
It starts with a star
and the arc
between bone and light.
An angled story
never ending –
a book blooming,
the gnarled woody parts
peeled to reveal the tender.
So much hardens
from the outside –
the denominator
of rain and sun
and unseen roots.
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Sarah Dickenson Snyder has written poetry since she knew there was a form with conscious line breaks. She has three poetry collections, The Human Contract (2017), Notes from a Nomad (nominated for the Massachusetts Book Awards 2018), and With a Polaroid Camera (2019). Recently, poems appeared in Artemis, Rattle, The Sewanee Review, and RHINO. A 30/30 Poet for Tupelo Press, she was accepted both times she applied to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. One poem was selected by Mass Poetry Festival Migration Contest to be stenciled on the sidewalk in Salem, MA, another nominated for Best of Net 2017. https://sarahdickensonsnyder.com/
