Oops, I’ve posted this twice this week. Sometimes I get confused, yes, I do. Oh well. Let’s just call it an encore performance!
Tanka 165
5/8/20
one three hundred two
arithmetic six divide
square root and round up
assured gestures learned talk
but nonsense equals nonsense
Haiku 822
5/14/20
Two doors down the street
Why bother? said the old man
sweeping up fragments
Claudia McGill Writes Poetry, Did You Know That? 
The first poem echoes the type of scrambling that occurs in my brain when my oldest son talks about advanced calculus or the minutiae of software coding.
Yes. There is that sense of losing hold and falling, inside your head.