My dad is thinking geometrically,
eyes closed; he waves his arms
to describe how he can transform
a circle into a square.
Did you know
a line has only one dimension?
That means it takes up no space.
Perhaps trigonometry can save us.
You need two fixed points for triangulation.
We have none.
There’s a square, he says, which needs
to be a circle.
And then he speaks of a continuous plane
perforated by endless stars
Bel Wallace practises yoga and likes very long walks. It was on the Camino de Santiago de Compostela that she found a story which wanted to be told. She’s still working on that, but poetry was her first love and plenty of other stories and poems have emerged along the way.