I think there are all kinds of different and interesting elements in this poem. The first thing I saw were the happy and sad faces, and I was thinking no-one noticed until I noticed that Janice and John noticed. Janice also remarks that it looks like a pine cone, which has scales like a fish, and which are seed-bearing, and the poem is a seed of sorts, in that it gets planted in our noodles and starts to grow into whatever we make of it. As I was looking at pictures of pine cones I clicked a link and read about "fibonacci number ratios", and I scrolled down and saw this bit: The Fibonacci sequence appears in Indian mathematics, in connection with Sanskrit prosody. In the Sanskrit oral tradition, there was much emphasis on how long (L) syllables mix with the short (S), and counting the different patterns of L and S within a given fixed length results in the Fibonacci numbers... which for some reason didn't surprise me at all. I also noticed that the macrons made me think of still water, and that the breves made me think of waves (hey does that rhyme?) and that made me think of analog versus digital, analog as wave and digital as line, or line of code, binary, on/off, zeroes and ones, and that made me think of quantum field theory and digital physics, which reminded me of Spinoza, God, Genesis, male/female, cell devision, binary fission, and fish.
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