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Title:Sommer

Can a Mathematician See Red?

Consider the sphere -
A hollow rounded surface
with no thickness.
Each point that we see
from the outside
is also a point we can see
from the inside.

If I paint red
all over the outside,
is the inside red?

The mathematician says NO,
for the layer of paint
forms a news sphere
that is outside the outside
and not a bit inside.

A mathematician
takes safe pleasure
in surface mysteries.

A poet
will see red
inside.

-JoAnne Growney