( Of course this is a topic that inspires poetry. Bonus: you can hear my southern accent. )

         You awake in the morning, the alarm clock softly demanding your continued existence. Stumbling from beneath satin sheets, you make your way into the kitchen, the subfloor heating welcoming your toes. The coffee maker greets you, percolating with snorts and whuffs as your beverage - black and sugarless - is dispensed. The automatic blinds ( Read more... )

The human body is composed of nearly 100 trillion cells. Each is specialized in function, intricately organized into the complicated structures that make up the essence of who we are: the pulsing blood, the beating heart, the neuron-packed grey matter of our brains. And within each cell, another world: the organelles and enzymes which serve to ( Read more... )

At the stoplight
the belt on my car
--the one I took to be fixed yesterday--
begins to squeal again.

First a light
whiffle whifflebeneath the hum of the heater ( Read more... )