Sturgeon's Law

Steven -- fascinated with where you went with this. A very different poem from what I might have written, which is all to the good: the world is huge and various with our numbers.

I like how you've infused the poem with scientific language. It almost makes me think, in that respect, of Emily Dickinson. A poet friend, Zoe Anglesey, commented once that Dickinson often used, in her poems, the most contemporary scientific language of the time in which she lived.

I'm pleased that the poem idea or writing exercise, whatever to call it -- which (for this particular one) was just off the top of my head -- led you to a place where you found a poem, or at any rate (at you put it) a draft.
 

Glad you enjoyed it, Lyle. It would have been scary if we'd written the same poem based on the exercise. :-)

This is still a draft in that I'm ironing out little wording things I don't like and contemplating whether the poem makes the jump between stanzas 4 and 5, and whether stanza 5 is even where it should be leaping.