the daunting static din of a thunderstorm's rain shower falling in relentless sheets on an empty neighborhood drive, or that roar it makes against bared windows between deep breaths between dreams;
it sounds like everything i've ever thought about
collapsing

or the sound of nothing
on television, or something

is fitting in
is getting out
is something else

albert einstein was born in 1988 in a little town outside of a bigger town.  he hated school, but he went anyway.  in third grade he failed a math test and dropped out to work with his father as a carpenter's apprentice.  albert very much admired his father but his father paid very little attention to him.  albert hoped that working with his father ( Read more... )

are you serious?

"My brother, my enemy, but loved, always loved.  Bury me in my homeland-- to have so much at least of my city."

Fitter, happier, more productive ( Read more... )

a robin made its nest outside my mother's bedroom window.  the tiny, azure eggs hatched on stormy prom night, and when i came home the next morning, april 30th, there were three little pink miracles with cute little tufts of white hair here and there that were baby robins.  i watched them all day.  i sat next to the window and watched them.  it was ( Read more... )

Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son ( Read more... )

"His soul had arisen from the grave of boyhood, spurning her graveclothes. Yes! Yes! Yes! He would create proudly out of the freedom and power of his soul, as the great artificer whose name he bore, a living thing, new and soaring and beautiful, impalpable, imperishable ( Read more... )

walking against the wind ( Read more... )