Bio

Greg Hill is an experimental poet from West Hartford, Connecticut, where he works as an adjunct professor of English. His work has appeared in The Blasted Tree, Pioneertown, Otoliths, The Writing Disorder, and elsewhere, and he has an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. In the free time afforded to a father of three young children, he composes experimental music for piano using cryptographic constraints. Twitter: @PrimeArepo. Website: https://www.gregjhill.com.

About this poem: For the first six lines, the number of words in each line corresponds to the Fibonacci sequence (1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8), after which the order reverses (5, 3, 2, 1, 1). In addition, for the entirety of the poem, the first letter of each word (e.g., c, a, d, a, e, i,...) corresponds to the digits of pi: 3, 1, 4, 1, 5, 9,... (where a=1, b=2, c=3, and so forth). As a further constraint, no words in the poem are repeated. Like falling in love, the theme of the poem, the Fibonacci sequence builds on its past, and, like the digits of pi, progresses forever, without repeating.