Alternate Routes

Mathematics made her wince.

She declared it would be more natural

to sing. She sang in trigonometry

class, insisting she better understood

the relations between angles

and could render them 

even flawlessly if heard.

The herd of students in the class

moved away from her voice, 

calling her a property snob 

who sought to know and 

share the height of mountains

on her property and to calculate

the length of a river there.

She claimed she only wanted

to make what she owned accessible.