Numbers - L.I.

This picture reminds me of the poem because it shows numbers, randomly placed in a spiral. This is a great example of numbers because it shows how numbers are everywhere and in everything. You can read this as one huge number, or in many separate numbers. You can use them to describe, and you can use them to figure out. Life is one big jumble of numbers.

This poem gave me the impression that no matter what kind of situation it is, there are numbers. No matter where or when, there are numbers. It gave me the impression that numbers aren't difficult of tricky. They are easy in every way. It is us that makes them more difficult.

The most interesting phrase in my opinion is this:

"Even subtraction is never loss,

just addition somewhere else:
five sparrows take away two,
the two in someone else's
garden now."

This is the most interesting because it shows almost optimism in numbers. When life is negative (subtraction), it will always turn around (addition). This is displayed in this phrase. Just because two sparrows have flown away, doesn't mean there gone. They are happiness in someone else's life.