The Coefficient Of Attraction Poem by J. Barrett Wolf

Your lanky frame resides outside my area of expertise.

I graze the narrow aisles of Barnes and Noble
Fields of prosaic sunflower paragraphs,
Caustic wit, declarations of love,
Calculus texts,
And the Tales of brave Ulysses.

You drift by,
Alternately concave and convex -
Sine, cosine, elemental attraction
Formulae that would haunt Euclid,
Drive Archimedes to his bath.
Galileo to the silent gravity
Of the Leaning Tower.

So, too, you might be the reason
Jimi wrote ‘Little Wing’.
Robert Johnson stood at the midnight corner.
Jackson Pollack tossed all that Cerulean blue.

The thesaurus says the opposite of science is art...
That was before the warm, perfect turn of your thigh.

No one has even come close to mapping
The genetic sequence of desire or
the coefficient of attraction.