Geometry
She hits ground running,
racing against personal best,
challenging setting sun with
brows knit in furrowed concern.
Orange circle drops to horizon
as if weighted with gravitas
of adult responsibility.
Points of light on shadowed wall
mark obscure constellation
of recent love triangle.
The heavens mock
her wrecked tangle;
mind connects the dots,
measuring, recounting
a vision of a vertex.
She is eager to find
reliable solution,
an equivalence relationship,
a formula to calculate
an area of safety,
a means of escaping
this passion’s trapezoid
and getting back
to square one.
Gary
Glauber
Gary
Glauber is a poet, fiction writer, teacher, and former music journalist.
His works have received multiple Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net
nominations. His two collections, Small Consolations (Aldrich Press) and
Worth the Candle (Five Oaks Press), and a chapbook, Memory Marries
Desire (Finishing Line Press), are available through Amazon, Barnes &
Noble, and directly from the publishers.
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