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The following is from a series of Pi Poems, or Cadae—the alphabetical equivalent of the first five digits of Pi (3.1415). Pi is a transcendental number that is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter approximately equal to 3.1415926535897. In poetry, it has been used as the basis for a syllabic form that obeys the following distribution of syllables and stanza lengths, resulting (by line length) in a kind of sonnet: xxx __________(3) x ____________(1)___________ } 3 xxxx _________(4) x ____________(1)___________ } 1 xxxxx ________(5) xxxxxxxxx ____(9) xx ___________(2)___________ } 4 xxxxxx _______(6) xxxxx ________(5)___________ } 1 xxx __________(3) xxxxx ________(5) xxxxxxxx _____(8)___________ } 5 xxxxxxxxx ____(9) xxxxxxx ______(7) from Cadae: The Pi Poems 1 The music stopped for a moment then— when we began to savor in its absence silence— started again, maybe a bit louder than before or maybe we only heard it as such, a [...]