The Poetry of Numbers

 

The first 100 Prime Numbers. Math people can’t get over marveling at them.

Poets know about it: 

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird 

by Wallace Stevens

I

Among twenty snowy mountains,   

The only moving thing   

Was the eye of the blackbird.   

II

I was of three minds,   

Like a tree   

In which there are three blackbirds.   

III

The blackbird whirled in the autumn winds.   

It was a small part of the pantomime.   

IV

A man and a woman   

Are one.   

A man and a woman and a blackbird   

Are one.   

V

I do not know which to prefer,   

The beauty of inflections   

Or the beauty of innuendoes,   

The blackbird whistling   

Or just after.   

Many ways of looking at everything. Numbers included.

[Big Middle part to come]

So there’s this…