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It is what he does not know,Crossing the road under the elm trees,About the mechanism of my car,About the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,About Mozart, India, Arcturus, That wins my praise. I
Continue readingTuesday Poem: On a Squirrel Crossing the Road in Autumn
Ted Olson in The Conversation: In early 1824, 30 members of Vienna’s music community sent a letter to Ludwig van Beethoven petitioning the great composer to reconsider his plans to
My grandmother kept a suitcase, hard & roundedlike a deep pink shell. I used to finger its rounded edges & compare them to her deft, valleyed hands.Wind-chapped skin crinkled like
By Dr. Alexander Lowen at Poetic Outlaws: We want to be more alive and feel more, but we are afraid of it. Our fear of life is seen in the
In 1973, Cynthia Bouron, a notorious Hollywood hanger-on who alleged that Cary Grant fathered her child, was found dead. Why has the case remained unsolved? By Hadley Meares at Air
If I give you lovewhat will I get in return?will it be acknowledged?or will it be but spurned?If I offer my lovewill you be mine forever?or will you laugh at
Rising out the world, you and I,a finite flame among the infinite darknessof two nebulous chasms… Born into a disenchanted worldof Cartesian rationalism, our mindsand spirits isolated from the universal,a
Continue readingSaturday Poem: To Make Living Itself the Highest Art
The man next to me sings God Bless America even thoughhe knows the Statue of Liberty is unsafe to enter. He sings my home, sweet home, and I bless fireworks
Continue readingFriday Poem: At a Party On Ellis Island Watching Fireworks
The flame that burns so bright, this too shall passHowever strong the light, this too shall pass You heap the wood upon the open fireAnd set the world alight, this
Continue readingThursday Poem: “This Too Shall Pass” by Rohan Buettel
I used to read your poemsbut lately you don’t writeyou’re silent and aloofyou know that isn’t right.You can’t close a door once openedyou can’t abolish all your dreamsyou’re a poet
What surprises me more than a newmillipede species was discovered this weekin Los Angeles County is that anyone caresenough about millipedes to look for them. Entomologistsmay be the last true
Alizah Holstein at Literary Hub: I first read Einstein’s Dreams in 1993, very shortly after it was published. The author, Alan Lightman, is a physicist at MIT whose writings have illuminated the
Continue readingOn the Art of Imagining in Alan Lightman’s “Einstein’s Dreams”