NUMBERS
For Take A Word: numbers. Elements from Paula Kesselring, Sissy Sparrows, Decrow, Dawn Inskip, Etc. by Danyale, Little Butterfly Wings, Lynne-Marie, Pink Reptile Designs, Rebecca McMeen, and Tangie Baxter. The poem is mine:
numbers
I
numbers are magic
as everyone knows
numbers of fingers
and numbers of toes
one is a number
as is two, as is three
big's not a number
and neither is wee
but you can give them a number
if you measure them close
you can give them a number
for lesser or most
red's not a number
and neither is blue
but we give them both numbers
and think that it's true
numbers aren't real
they can't hug you or kiss you
they can't feed you a meal
and numbers won't love you
zero's a number
or just an idea
it gives nothing away
but a question: to be?
II
What if we could map the future?
If we could graph the probability
of you loving me, of me loving you?
This moment, its topology, its exact
dimensions and chronology - if we
could fracture it into its smallest
signifier - decipher the most obtuse
and mysterious functions - if we
could do that - this moment, its
infinite fractals, spinning off one
from the next - if you, if I, are only
numbers, the consequence of some
algebraic equation, some geometric
shape - do we add? Do we divide?
Each solution holds the next problem.
III
zero equals spiral
the moment of conception
anything is possible
one at the center
the beginning
and the end
two, the dialectic
balance, and also
contradiction
three is perfection
in its fullness
nothing is missing
four is totality
this earth
and all its directions
five is the star
it is fire
it is light
six is power
it is destiny
unfolding
seven is fulfillment
it is motion
it is change
eight
the pillar
and the path
nine
is the serpent
that bites its own tail
zero, the spiral
the shell
and the snail
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For detailed credits see at flickr. 
