Afternoon in Andalusia
But why wouldn’t geometry equal divinity
1000 + 1 + 1 + 1 What is faith
but trust in one & infinity Once
in Granada I studied a wall of polygons
or was it stars or bees or for a second a flash
of gladiolas in a field until I could see
a galaxy planets spinning spokes on a wheel
clocks or buttons vines blooming a tornado
from a future century garden of ellipses
my lover’s cornea alight each morning
God so far away & right in front of me
Copyright © 2022 by Sahar Romani. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on January 27, 2022, by the Academy of American Poets.