LPiA-25 Nov. 9

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"Mandelbrotland"

At every edge, the world repeats again
the recursive coastline of a boundless land;
The same dark bloom coils inward without end.

Where each old fear's re-patterned in the brain,
The same impulse repeats on higher bands
in the same dark bloom coiling inwards, without end.

The more I look, the less I can explain;
All clarity breaks down in weird dreamlands.
At every edge, the world repeats again,

Like a lesson I can't learn, mine to gain,
That just circles round and round within its span--
The same dark bloom coils inward without end.

The fractal proves reality insane,
With no clean truths, hard lines, or final plan;
At every edge, it just repeats again.

Each truth I grasp unwrites itself again,
Receding into shapes no mind can stand.
The same dark bloom coils inward without end,
At every edge, the world repeats again.

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Not sure if the Mandelbrot set counts as geometry. It is a shape. There are mathematics. Close enough?

 
Nice use of a villanelle given the subject