Albert Einstein, after time
very much thoughtful time,
solved God’s riddle
of mass becoming energy
and energy becoming mass,
and perhaps his formula,
which explains our cosmos,
applies to poetry as well by
putting thoughts onto paper
which, when read, convert
material words into ideas
that energize a reader’s mind.
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Richard F. Fleck is a retired Professor of English at the University of Wyoming and as a boy going up in Princeton NJ in his father’s Parnassus Bookshop, he had the honor of meeting Albert Einstein who was a customer in his father’s bookshop. Richard’s latest collection of poems is Bamboo in the Sun: poems of Japan (2020).
