Counting Snowflakes

TEN AND TWENTY

            for R.S.

All numbers mystical

until they reach the beyond

and make no sense.

A book on

poetry of numbers

years ago when I was somebody

else, before I

was me serious,

beautiful book

placing the poet

one with the poets

and I ruled it out

because I thought

at the time

while it was true

I wasn’t balanced

it didn’t get to the 10 or 20

in my wallet

I still thought money was money

Jim Bodeen

March 2019