I’m sitting in Geometry
in this cold plastic chair
the same color blue as my mind
and my teacher says to find the area of
triangle MDF.
In my eyes I see
a short, dotted line between M and D
and no line between D and F
though the gap is tremendous
but between M and F is a line
so thick and unwavering
its ink bleeds through the paper
there is no doubt that they are connected.
In my eyes I see
myself as the D
my mother as the M
and my father as the F
and I wonder.
How am I supposed to find the area
of the vast space between these points
when I can’t even find the value
of each individual line?