One of These Days Too
A poem by Tim Suermondt

One of These Days Too
for Lee

There is a mathematical bent
to the world, a precision

despite the chaos, quite strange
but we poets encompass multitudes,

well… we do the best we can.
As I rummage through every facet

of the city, tabulating this and that,
there’s no agenda, no gnashing of teeth,

the heart full and meek today.
Under a department store awning

Pythagoras stands, spiffy in his captain’s
uniform, the great river waiting right

around the corner, sailboats and their
geometry on sleepy, grateful display.

I count my steps and the number of birds
leading to the water’s edge.

About the Author:

Tim Suermondt’s sixth full-length book of poems A Doughnut And The
Great Beauty Of The World will be coming out in 2023 from MadHat
Press. He has published in Poetry, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, The
Georgia Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Stand Magazine, Smartish
Pace, The Fortnightly Review, Poet Lore and Plume, among many
others. He lives in Cambridge (MA) with his wife, the poet Pui Ying
Wong.

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