Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare;
And left the flushed print in a poppy there:
Like a yawn of fire from the grass it came,
And the fanning wind puffed it to flapping flame.
Bio: Tobias Dantzig was a mathematician of Baltic German and Russian American heritage, the father of George Dantzig, and the author of Number: The Language of Science and Aspects of Science.
