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Slowly, slowly

Piece by piece

Arc by awkward rhombus

I relearn the geometry of love.

Trapezoids and bell curves

The dance of angles and lines

Somewhere calculus comes to play.

I knew calculus once…

I could differentiate in my sleep once,

and integrate while awake.

Know the cosine of intersections

The theorems stacked easily.

Out here the curves shift

and sometimes grow murky.

Reawakening is painstaking

Baby steps, baby steps

Sometimes I stumble,

trip on the patterns of the floor,

chew on sawdust

to quench the hunger.