DAMIAN GARSIDE

BLESSINGS

I was counting my

blessings on

an abacus

when someone, a

mathematical angel

or number demon


said I should do it

in Fibonacci


and so I

went to powers of and

surds and all manner of

differential equation


until the light went out

and I

ran to the window to

see whether it

was power outage, death

dream or


Sun and stars finally

given up on me.