30:30 2014, Day 14

Subjunctive

On his sabbatical package tour

through madness, the mathematician

built glasses of mirrors and cardstock

blinders, to see the fourth and fifth

dimensions. Gamely staggered

through the gardens of Oxford

tripping on the present. In Spanish

class they teach the ninth graders

the past tense of being is the same

as going. All motion is equation,

after it's passed. A fact to memorize,

like the word for clock or how

to decline it. You need it to understand

the story of the fevered knight

and the windmill that mocked him.