Bio

Kevin Farey has taught math, mostly at the high school level, for over forty years. In his mid-thirties, he became enamored of poetry as well. When his poetry is shared, it most frequently appears in his classroom or in emails. It has also appeared in the anthology River of Earth and Sky: Poems for the 21st Century and in the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics.

as

the

tiger's

claw gouges

my skin till a gash

glistens red from wrist to elbow

then another along length of femur the panic

passes pain subsides ... then all goes briefly blank ... then I rise
through memories and past skies

till a voice cries turn back fast toward the last reflected light you might see
which from the brilliance of this endless
narrowing tunnel
looks golden