Lenore Weiss

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I stood on the corner of the hospital waving for the Uber to pick me up at the curb in the snowstorm, hoping Lew was… Read More »Testimony by Scary Uber Driver in a Snowstorm

I’d finished watching a movie about the military in Argentina, the dirty wars of 1976 to 1983 where nearly thirty thousand people were arrested and… Read More »Thomas Jefferson Don’t Look Now

Dylan Thomas, the great Welsh poet, captured the essence of turgor pressure when he wrote, “The force that through the green fuse drives the flower… Read More »Turgor Pressure (What is it?) and Dylan Thomas

Suddenly sprouting from dry backyards one or two, even three in late summer, pink as cotton candy or pink as face powder naked ladies along… Read More »Pelicans Write a Note in the Upwards Sky

I see jet exhaust in the sky, a single line that stretches from one cloud to the next and wish to jump high enough so… Read More »Wild Fires are Right-Justified

Light is both a particle and a wave. Two things that have the potential of becoming one or the other in the same moment depending… Read More »I Contain Multitudes

For several days, a dead insect had been on the windowsill. Maybe it kept trying to get outside, to fly free, frustrated because the pane… Read More »It’s Not a Question: What Disappears

When I think about membranes, I think about permeability, movement from one place to another. Add sunshine with water to speed along carbon dioxide capture… Read More »Membranes, Photosynthesis, and Life

We leave tomorrow. I went to the gym today, Monday of Memorial Day weekend, Driving down High Street was an easy ride, all the lights… Read More »Ketchup Bottle and Early Arrival