PHI

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  • The formula for perfection, not created—found
  • by the dissectors, the analyzers—
  • observing, measuring, discovering
  • to their astonishment that the number
  • is everywhere, from the galaxies to our DNA,
  • both hidden and visible,
  • in a beautiful face and a fiddlehead fern.
  • 1.618 begins the sequence,
  • the numbers going on and on,
  • an irrational shot at infinity.
  • 1.618 in hemoglobin and in sap,
  • in you, me, and Cleopatra.
  • In the things our eyes find beautiful,
  • everywhere and always there is Phi.