CHRIS PREDDLE

This compost bin

This compost bin embodies the golden ratio.
Graham’s squared-off
timbers stand four-square
in a rectangle
among the curvaceous borders. The body of worms
warms
to its earthy task. They’re rejoicing that the longer
side of their soft mansion
is equal to the square root of five minus one
over two, that divine proportion.

We’ll haul our bodies like a cablecar
up Middleton Fell, as high as they’ve been
above the wormy earth.
Vitruvian bin,
grant as our eternal pastime some ‘truly remarkable
proof’ of Fermat’s last theorem.

Carmen-Oana Dumitru

Chris Preddle
 

Lada asta de compost
 

Lada asta de compost reprezinta raportul de aur.
Vasul din lemn al lui Graham
sprijina patru patrate
intr-un dreptunghi
printre marginile curbate. Trupul de viermi
se pregateste
pentru sarcina sa pamanteasca. Se bucura ca cea mai lunga
parte a casei lor moale
e egala cu radacina patrata a cinci minus unu
supra doi, aceea divina proportie.

Ne vom tari trupurile ca un funicular
pe Middleton Fell, la fel de sus cum au fost si ei
deasupra pamantului de viermi.
Lada vitruviana,
accepta ca trecut al nostru etern o “dovada cu-adevarat
remarcabila” a ultimei teoreme a lui Fermat.