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Similar Triangles Poem

The Aesthetics of Rain

2024
Watercolour on paper
The Aesthetics of Rain, 2024 — Hot Coffee = ((Rust)(Savored Love)) / Ageless Intimacy
The Aesthetics of Rain, 2024 — watercolour on paper
The poem Hot Coffee  =  (Rust)(Savored Love) ⁄ Ageless Intimacy

The value of hot coffee is to the value of rust as the value of savored love is to the value of ageless intimacy.

The same poem, solved four ways

A similar triangles poem is a proportion, a ⁄ b = d ⁄ e, and a proportion can be rearranged without changing what it claims. Each arrangement is a separate poem and all four say the same thing.

  1. Hot Coffee = (Rust)(Savored Love) ⁄ Ageless Intimacy
  2. Rust = (Hot Coffee)(Ageless Intimacy) ⁄ Savored Love
  3. Savored Love = (Ageless Intimacy)(Hot Coffee) ⁄ Rust
  4. Ageless Intimacy = (Savored Love)(Rust) ⁄ Hot Coffee
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