With simple interest
you zero in,
the square root home.
She offers pi
a fraction of her heart,
you desire
the sine of her curves
– infinity reclining –
the joy of sets.
Prime attraction multiplies
2+2=5
an upward graph
future = XTC
with high probability of success.
A new addition
plan n=3,
normal distribution
for t+7.
A discontinuity,
commitment ¬ =
no proof of love.
She speaks
complex codes
calculates different solutions.
You are discreet
she is discrete, weaves
a matrix of deceit.
The triangle with Pascal
a key factor,
she offers an imaginary number
chaos with
fractals of love.
The result
a division of friends and CDs.
When she said forever
how could you know
she meant forever minus 1.
Bio –Maurice Devitt
Runner-up in The Interpreter’s House Poetry Competition in 2017, he was winner of the Trocaire/Poetry Ireland Competition in 2015 and has been placed or shortlisted in many competitions including the Patrick Kavanagh Award, Listowel Collection Competition, Over the Edge New Writer Competition, Cuirt New Writing Award, Cork Literary Review and the Doire Press International Chapbook Competition. He has had poems published in Ireland, England, Scotland, the US, Mexico, Romania, India and Australia, runs the Irish Centre for Poetry Studies site and is a founder member of the Hibernian Writers’ Group.