Reflections on Loneliness

POETRY  CORNER

– 10/29/14

Michael Angerman

Its part of our life
we don’t think about it often
but when we do
we know we are alone
forever

Michael Angerman is a former researcher at Caltech. He currently resides in Oregon.

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Amir Sapir

In the rain bucket
the moon
finding its mate

Amir Sapir is a former researcher in biology at Caltech. He continues his research at the university of Haifa, in north Israel.

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Noele Norris

The peach tree weeps blood;
its bony branches offer
red gems to the frost.

our Loss
Words strike clank
drop into Silence

Blanketed by ice, a slender koi stirs
dreaming of fairy moss
and grapefruit.

River of still waves—
the snow skates across the ice:
I cross the bridge home.

Noele Norris received her bachelor’s degree from Caltech in 2010 and was one of the founding members of Caltech’s poetry group. She has a master’s in literature from Queen Mary, University of London, and is now a graduate student at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at MIT, where she is currently using her background in robotics and mathematics to study how bacteria swim.

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