Pythagoras's flowering heart

Slonimsky, Lee Pythagoras's Flowering Heart Atlanta Review 4/1/2007 The calculations by which he arrived at theorems for the fragrance of sunlight are vanished now. If only they'd survived, we'd better understand the deep delight he must have taken from dawn's rose perfume, the luminescent orchids of midday, the way slow violets of late evening bloom before the darkness seals their glow away. But just the notion that the air can breathe, while gold rays flower and make love to stone, reveals a fevered ardor, one that seethes with lust for leaf and dust, for bark and bone. Spring mornings at the pond, he must have known seduction by first shimmer. Sunlight's moan. Lee Slonimsky [Author Affiliation) fy 2Oats À PLONMIMASKYA= < ~ A34 Lee Slonimsky's poetry collections are Talk Between Leaf and Skin (SRLR Press) and Pythagoras in Love (Orchices Press, 2007). His poems appear in Best ofAshville Poetry Review, The Carolina Quarterly, Carol Goodman's novels The Ghost Orchid (2006) and The Sonnet Lover (2007), and The New York Times. Copyright Poetry Atlanta, Inc. Spring 2007