'In Buckinghamshire hedgerows
the birds nesting in the merged green density,
weave little bits of string and moths and feathers
and thistledown,
in parabolic concentric curves'
and, working for concavity, leave spherical feats
of rare efficiency;
whereas through lack of integration,
avid for someone's fortune,
three were slain and ten committed perjury,
six died, two killed themselves, and two paid
fines for risks they'd run.
But then there is the
icosasphere
in which at last we have steel-cutting at its
summit
of economy,
since twenty triangles conjoined, can wrap one
ball or double-rounded shell
with almost no waste, so geometrically
neat, it's an icosahedron. Would the engineers
making
one,
or Mr. J. O. Jackson
tell us
how the Egyptians could have set up seventy-eight-
foot
solid granite vertically?
We should like to know how that was done.
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