Abstract

Is math abstract? The beauty of a spiral,
when captured in a sluggish mollusk's shell?
A dandelion picture going viral,
a ladybug that's resting for a spell
on leaves designed by unrelenting fractals
to gobble sunshine up. Though it's no bird,
nor relative of ancient pterodactyls,
Bernoulli is a name she's never heard,
she nonetheless can fly as though the ether,
(replace it by a boffin's quantum foam),
can lift her as she soars, the land beneath her
a temporary respite, not a home.
An elegant equation tells the tale.
A ladybug, a flower, and a snail.