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Excerpt from The Math of Saint Felix

February 10, 2015 Poetry

$book cover of The Math of Saint Felix by Diane Exavier, red with white text$

This piece is excerpted from The Math of Saint Felix, a poetry collection by Diane Exavier ’09. Exavier will be a guest at Amherst College’s LitFest 2025, an exciting, 10^th-anniversary celebration of Amherst’s literary legacy and life. Register here.

algebra

flower vase with multicolored flowers in front of a green wall

I am the counting

ledger and I pray

broken parts reunite,

bones reset,

remnants transpose.