Jim Farned
Thales†
I can see Thales
still by the shore
where the great seabody
rolled in ceaseless labor.Twenty oceans
from Botticelli, he
too stood before
subsiding breakers,
contemplating Aphrodite's
endless birth.
† (c.600BC, one of the Seven Sages; said to have invented mathematics and to have held water to be the First Principle.)
Bio:
Jim Farned is a freelance editor and mathematician currently living in Santa Barbara, California, where he owned and operated an oceanside Bed and Breakfast hotel for ten years.
