' ' ' ' ' '' ' ' ' The Instruments Of Maths(For Scarlet) Poem by Dónall Dempsey

The instruments
of Maths

scattered

here...
a protractor

by degrees

measuring an impossibility of...

there...
a ruler

lost in the distance

both compass & divider
lie beside her

an inky chewed eraser

a packed lunch
still intact

flouresent pink - covered
in hearts and flowers

customary schoolgirl
'stuff'

the same name
again & again

now obsessively hidden within
now blazoned forth

in each heart
with a flourish

new mobile
(face cracked)
with new ringtone

LADY GAGA.

the car
stripped of its speed

tame beside her

blood invisible
on its redness.

A sobbing escaping
the gathered crowd

like an innocent balloon
escaping the hand of a child.