ALICE THROUGH THE GLASS
Try
contemplating
these marvels,
today being another
ordinary Wednesday. You study this
group of ordinary objects: seashells, flowers, curling leaves,
until your eyes burn, your heart nailed to these visions like ripe metaphors
rattling to get free. Like Leonardo of Pisa, you have an abacus, that just might move you down the rabbit's hole
with Alice. Lewis Carroll knew the Secret: add the previous two to find the next. The Farey Tree, Goedel, Escher, Bach and Mandelbrot are famous now as Mother Nature, with her eternally born again
chambered nautilus, her dandelions and daisies, chronicled teeth, swarms, cellular automatons, algorithms, fractals, black holes, dark matter to the very ends of observation, seeds growing through your floorboards and out your windows, rearranging chaos into immaculate order, the world rich with order, the Hindu mathematics of it all: Fib's rabbits hopping toward infinity, like Pi.
(The Fibonacci Sequence: 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 55 ... etc. Syllables or words. Add the previous two numbers to find the next. Like Pi, it could go on forever. Remember that old campfire song that never ends, it just goes on and on, my friends....)
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