X of 0

There are many ways
Of reckoning counts,
Given anything
Can be divided
Or subsumed again.

How many leaves, how
Many needles, how
Many trees, groves, woods,
Forests, how many
Ships sail the forest?

How many verses
In all your scriptures?
How many bark strips,
Tablets, codices,
Digits to code them?

Once you had names, you
Couldn’t stop naming.
Once you had numbers
You had to count them,
Keep estimating.

Proliferation
Is more like birthing,
More like creation.
Math fits the cosmos
So well it makes it.