One jar contained a conch-shaped mass the color of clay after firing, a fist-sized chunk wedged beside a pouch of pinkish-white strings, like bloated dental floss. Another held fragments of luminous, rectangular tissue roughly the size of granola bars. The pathologist on duty at Princeton Hospital the day that Einstein died stole the contents of […]
Michael Steffen
Michael Steffen, MFA, Is the author of three full-length poetry collections: No Good at Sea (Legible Press, 2002), Heart Murmur (Bordighera Press, 2009), and Bad Behavior (Brick Road Poetry Press, 2013). His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry,Poet Lore, and Chiron Review, among others.