Centers of Balance
She tries to feel what’s beautiful
with a quiet mind—but thought
opens her to the earth’s honed
geometry. See how the sunflower’s
outer petals, maroon and orange,
frame the flowerhead, and its center
the disc florets, packed close—
golden ratio, the Fibonacci sequence—
their angles perfect for growing
the greatest sum of seeds.
In every spiral’s numerical center,
a promise. And she, too, watching—
the double helix, a loaded spring,
her futures coiled and ready.
LEONORE HILDEBRANDT is the author of the poetry collections The Work at Hand, The Next Unknown, and Where You Happen to Be. Read more.