A poem by Michael Stewart

— E —

It is surely ironic that E or epsilon,
Considered simple in Hellenic grammar,
Represents ergs, or ergon, and is measured,
Since Einstein, in alpha, beta, and gamma.

I think of William Blake, or what he foretold.
Of Democritus, of Newton’s particles of light.
Lo, he might have said, where the nuclear umbrella
Sprouts like a tent [...]

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A poem by Thomas Thornburg from Ancient Letters

A winter thaw opens the children’s coats
And bursts the locks on schoolyard fences,
Disturbs the sluggish chucks; the stoats
Pursuing the nights on their private fancies
Are vicious with laggards, fond of a chance,
Like our children in their baffle, kiting
In dives, the wind-hovered swallows chirking
Over your crossed churchyard. Sighting
Down the [...]

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