(A Pi
poem for Pi Day)
Delightful
how
the cicadas
sing
in repetitive
yet
intricately musical chantings —
when slowed
for our unaware ears
by digital means,
so that now
we distinguish notes
which we imagine as coming
from exotic, unknown instruments …
as, most sublimely, they do.
(I once
heard such a slowed recording — amazing, unrecognisable.)
Pi poems are also known as Cadae (the alphabetical equivalent of the first 5 digits of Pi). Both syllables per line and lines per stanza follow the Pi sequence of numbers.
Pi poems are also known as Cadae (the alphabetical equivalent of the first 5 digits of Pi). Both syllables per line and lines per stanza follow the Pi sequence of numbers.
