Thomas Schmidt

Today a black hole swallowed Stephen Hawking. By quark of fate or faith, infinity Ago, I stood a Cambridge student gawking As he rolled past me into Trinity....

Here I launch into astrophysics, but Before I bring up billions and trillions Of galaxies and light-years and stuff, Let me just admit my ignorance...

What does justice look like? He asked, and I said, that’s easy. A bronze statue of a woman In robes, blindfolded, Holding up scales. Precisely,...

It’s N-scale trains these days, delight du jour As I drive up the hill and think I can  And think I can switch tracks to turn him toward  ...