The Golden Ratio
by Ben Chappell
I think Fibonacci knew of you.
Kepler, too, heard your name
when they, and Pacioli and Binet,
penned their laws and theorems.
On the objective and empirical
beauty present in nature, mathematics,
and otherwise sacred geometry,
I couldn’t say much.
Math had been your best subject
before we’d met, when our
recurrence relation
made a sum of us.
But when I lay
in your lap, facing sunward,
and rays of golden undertones
coil across my outstretched
index, middle, ring, pinkie—
I think I understand
what the ancient Greeks meant
by divine proportion.