Saturday, August 13, 2011

Error Analysis: An Ode to Elizabeth Bishop


whereas the mathematician calculates p values,
the poet struggled with the p-erfect word for her poem
no simple answers there like greater than 0.05 means
there's no statistical difference, what a huge difference a word
can make.
or a phrase, a sentence, a paragraph, a book,
a look, a caress,
as he walks in the door and I look his way
I wonder if he knows I love him.

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