October 2020

Magazine

October 2020

v.147 n.9
Magazine

October 2020

v.147 n.9
Article

The Cut of Their Jib

The dashing, Johnny Depp-ian swashbuckler may live in our stories, but the motivation for “turning pirate” rarely has anything to do with a yearning for open waters.

















Article
We calculate trajectories of moving objects
& analyze the chances of touching death,
then living instead

Poem | Math Drills


Article

Poem | October, Falling

This is what I want to do with my late seventies, / honor the sky, scatter stained glass on the sidewalk, // follow the path their hues take us, you beside me.




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