Or So One Would Have to Imagine

The way math tells it,

Counting’s natural,

Invisible’s not—

Some numbers are so

Invisible as

To be considered

Imaginary,

As one pop math piece

Put it recently,

And then the punchline—

Imaginary

But important, real.

For now, we’re hung up

On the thought counting

Is to math as light

Is to all wavelengths,

A minor subset

Of reality

That human bodies

Evolved to detect.

Rainbow, one, two, three.

Couldn’t we argue

From the evidence

Of math’s existence

Humans have evolved

To detect that which

Humans can’t detect?