big whirls have little whirls
that feed on their velocity,
and little whirls have lesser whirls
and so on to viscosity
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ooh but I didn’t write it! I forgot to list the author:
Lewis F. Richardson, 1922
I realized I didn’t technically know what it meant to “cascade.” And then, when I looked it up, I found the poem, and thought it was so pretty 🌀
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