Word Problems

Mercedes Lucero

Solve each problem. Show your work.

1. What is the shape of space between mourning and disremembering?

2. If even 3-dimensional spaces have abbreviations, how many abbreviations can you locate

in the day before?

3. Determine the distance between two bodies, where one body breaths slow and the other

softens in the darkness.

4. The universe is expanding at an increasing rate. What would you tell the person who says

that the sound of the wind is really the sound of the universe falling apart?

5. What is the final weight of reduction?

6. A traveler dwells at the border between winter and a wildflower, inside half-livid skin

pressed against a cold window, over holy loving and no one wholly. Calculate a synonym

for living.

7. Using a theory of waiting and forgiveness, how long will it take to move from one

homesickness to another?

8. Pores are often vulnerable, filled with heightened understandings, eager to give a

language. Find the pores on your body. Do you notice any condensation? Determine what

is really leaving your body.

9. How many different kinds of open can you be? Start with your hands.

10. Image erasure. Imagine June. Imagine how long it takes to erase a name. How many

ashes can you spread beneath your tongue until you speak again? Until your words are

resurrected with fire?