Potential Titles: Math [category]

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Abacus.

Add.

Algebra.

Algorithm.

Arithmetic.

Average:
Their fill of average joys and sorrows - Louis Golding "Ghosts Gathering"

This continuum of fairly average losses - Kate Knapp Johnson "Oh"

An average mazing of mistakes - A.E. Stallings "Daedal"

Calculate.

Calculus.

Compute/Computer.

Count.

Deduct:
Reduced, diminished, and deducted from the larger quantities - Sandy Florian "Abacus"

Deduction is howling at an oncoming storm - Khaled Mattawa "Before"

Divide/Divisible/Division.

Double.

Equal.

Equation.

Exponent:
The exponent of breath - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Love III: Love"

The tablets of exponential seeing - Alice Notley "Individual Time"

Figure.

Fractal.

Fraction.

Geometric/Geometry.

Geometry Adjacent [category].

Graph:
Writ over a graph of consciousness - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Americus, Book I [excerpt]"

Black strokes on a graph of broken glass - Marilyn Hacker "Morning News"

This graph showing allowable outcomes - Brenda Shaughnessy "2-Sided Map Shows Line Where Falling Bodies Land"

A graph of absent shadow - Art Zilleruelo "Someone's Property"

Half.

Increment.

Infinite.

Inverse.

Logarithmic:
Logarithmic function of desire and fulfillment - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"

Math/Mathematics.

Mean.

Median:
The median and mode of your days - Chris Nealon "All About You"

Minus:
A god in the minus numbers - Julia Alvarez "Small Portions"

The tormented arithmetic of one minus one - Mary Jo Bang "Utopian Longing Becomes More Absurd"

That add up to more minus than plus - Rosebud Ben-Oni "So They Say-- They Finally Nailed-- the Proton's Size-- & Hope-- Dies--"

Multiply/Multiplication.

Negative

Number/Outnumber.

Numbers [category].

Odd.

Percent:
Honor the percentage of failure - Mary Jo Bang "S Is for Strategies for Making Sense of Spectacles"

The silence adding its six percent - Conrad Hilberry "Self-Portrait as Bank Teller"

At least fifty percent terrible - Maggie Smith "Good Bones"

Plus.

Prime.

Proportion.

Quantity:
All adjacent quantities bloom - Joshua Bennett "X"

Reduced, diminished, and deducted from the larger quantities - Sandy Florian "Abacus"

Such improbable quantities of memory - C. K. Williams "Doves"

Quarter.

Quota:
Her absence is filling a quota - Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon "Measured"

Random.

Ratio:
In keen and quivering ratio - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XI: Compensation"

Vast, in its fading ratio - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Time and Eternity XII"

The ratio of the body to the void - Louise Gluck "A Village Life"

Water and milk in such strange ratios - Preeti Vangani "One Cup of Chai"

Statistic:
And quake for statistics and angles - Dorsey Craft "The women my husband ought to love"

The statistics that pain still lacks - Pablo Neruda "The Watersong Ends" transl. by Alastair Reid

Subtract.

Sum.

Tabulate:
My legs are tense from tabulating the miles - Andrea Abi-Karam "DEAR GABRIELLE"

Tally.

Theorem:
The vapor fringe where three theorems meet - Mary Jo Bang "The Harbor"

Total.

Trigonometry:
Storms of white trigonometries - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

An old trigonometry still true - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"

Unit:
That one brief unit of loose time - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

A separate unit of experience - Monica de la Torre "Pause the Document"

Value.

Vary/Variable/Variation/Variety.

Wave Function:
Unlikely steps on the gallows of wave function - Mike Allen "Pulse"


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