My hotel was struck by lightning at 5:24 am. I was awake. I heard it. I had just laid back down to sleep after waking up an hour earlier. I realized I’d forgotten to create a software update memory card for a robot, so I downloaded the zip file from the manufacturer’s technical support site,…
Mass protests on the streets of Moscow forced the Kremlin to confront a level of public discontent that has not been seen in Russia in decades.
Protesters laughed at this notion. “Are we here because Hillary Clinton texted us?”
He picked up a pebble
and threw it into the sea.And another, and another.
He couldn’t stop.He wasn’t trying to fill the sea.
He wasn’t trying to empty the beach.He was just throwing away,
nothing else but.Like a kitten playing
he was practicing for the futurewhen there’ll be so many things
he’ll want to throw awayif only his fingers will unclench
and let them go.“Small boy,” by Norman MacCaig from Collected Poems (Random House).






