With apologies to Joyce Kilmer

by Ellen De Haan
Sun Valley, CA

I think that I shall never see ...
A book as lovely as geometry.
A book between her covers prest
Assumptions, theorems, and the rest.
A book who in her binding holds
A nest of old papers between her folds.
Upon whose pages pens have written
Whose back binding a dog has bitten.
A book who into my locker goes.
Who intimately lives with my gym clothes.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But Euclid made geometry.