Angling

By Richard Mather

from eternity

to eternity to

eternity

Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 29,

discovered 1897, Pennsylvania

If a straight line be cut

into equal

and unequal segments

[…] equal to the square on the half.

He was convicted by Ælfwald

smuggling liquor, narcotics

from Juteland to Norfolk.

Set down his pen

set down

this hook

<0, Sa; if a ≠ b, then Sa ≠ Sb>

Set fire to his craft

and drowned

say Euclid

(Reign of Ptolemy I)

first Plato,

then Spinoza