I want to absorb my life
like a dinosaur sponge.
Instead, I’m a bottle brush:
reaching for all the edges,
getting into the spots no one sees,
and instead of patting my back for a job well done,
I’m fretting about all those places
I couldn’t reach.
i spent thousands of dollars.
i spent thousands of hours.
i worked so hard.
and learned so much.
i studied so diligently
but i still don’t have words
big enough
to describe
the overwhelming sense of happiness
you bring me.
A head full of auburn curls.
Two voices shushing,
while a quilt gives us invisibility.
I gaze into those little shining green eyes
All time stands still with such hope.
She whisper “I lub you!”
“I love you too!” I whisper, giving a gentle hug.
Searching footsteps approach.
Laughter erupts.
We peak from the quilt aaaaaannndd
RARRRR!
All of the orchids were shoulders;
inflexible freckled bike fenders.
They were pretty hard to look at.
I picked off the petals one by one
until only, shocked stamens
bowed their heads at once.
summer warmth-
pale frog snaps
dragonfly
from midair.
humid quiet
surrounding
tenderly
fractured pond-
i listen.
He was a physicist
He developed the Theory of Relativity
He won the Nobel Prize
He wrote a letter to Roosevelt warning him about Germany’s uranium research
Almost fifty years after his death, Time Magazine designated him “Person of the Century.”
Einstein did other stuff
He played violin
He sailed boats
There is a story that he helped the little girl next door with her homework in return for chocolate
I could have used some help with my homework
I would have paid cash.
Did you fly?
In the sky?
Was it blue?
And white, too?
Are you here?
Without fear?
May we sing?
Shall we cling?
Will you stay?
One more day?
