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In Syracuse<\/strong><\/p>\n Yesterday evening Archimedes came round I said I hoped he had not been disturbed He said on the contrary he\u2019d watched through the window Somewhere a dog began to yap and Archimedes You asked him to supper but he wouldn\u2019t stay. Simon Collings<\/strong> has been writing for 35 years \u2013 stories, reviews, poems, journalism. He lives in Oxford in the UK and works in London. He was with Oxfam for 16 years where he was Fundraising Director. After leaving Oxfam Simon was CEO of a small non-profit providing training in fundraising. He now works for an organisation which advises renewable energy businesses in Africa. For more information see simoncollings.wordpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n In Syracuse\u00a0 has been set to music by the composer Laura Jurd. The piece, scored for string quartet and soprano, will be performed by the Ligeti Quartet later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In Syracuse Yesterday evening Archimedes came round for a bath. He was ages about it and afterwards he said he\u2019d been thinking about the relationship of mass to volume the mathematics of bodies and cooling bath water. I said I hoped he had not been disturbed by the drumming from across the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5161,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5159\/revisions\/5161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nfor a bath. He was ages about it
\nand afterwards he said he\u2019d been thinking
\nabout the relationship of mass to volume
\nthe mathematics of bodies and cooling bath water.<\/p>\n
\nby the drumming from across the street
\nnor by the neighbour\u2019s raucous singing
\n(accompanying their new karaoke machine.)<\/p>\n
\nthe light pass from orange to pink and the swifts
\ncriss-crossing like the threads of his thought.
\nHe was seeking he said an equation
\nwith the elegance and clarity of the early evening light.<\/p>\n
\nchewed at the ends of his beard. So far the bath problem
\nhad eluded him.<\/p>\n
\n\u2018I bought fresh fish at the market,\u2019 you said,
\n\u2018a wonderful cheese, such juicy blood red oranges
\nand wine.\u2019 But he would not be tempted. He said
\nhe was working on something to do with calculating
\nthe earth\u2019s circumference and wanted to get a letter off
\nto his friend Eratosthenes. It seemed
\nthey were onto something big.<\/p>\n