Dramatis persona*

helenhead Helen Chick

I've always wanted a bumper sticker that said "I'm a female, LDS/Mormon, Scout leading, geocaching, piano-playing, bicycling, mathematics educator with a PhD in maths ... and I VOTE"!

I think this makes me a minority group of cardinality 1!

* Since there's only one of me and "personae" is plural (I think), I've gone with dramatis persona.
August 2013
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96. In the Storm [100 poems challenge]

 

96.          In the Storm

Roiling and swirling,
Rising and falling,
Gaining in power
Malevolent force.
Slow-building mounds
Of liquid momentum,
Tilting and tumbling
Rhythms irregular,
Pounding, propelling,
Surface in turmoil
Hurled hard against
The teacup’s white walls.

2 August 2013

 

Comments: I’m not totally convinced this succeeds, not least because I had to be careful not to overdo the “scale” of the waves and storm for most of […]