A Presidential Candidate Speaks Boldly after Debates By JOSE ESPINEL In the heart of Warren country, a different candidate danced onto the stage. Andrew Yang arrived at sunset and addressed a crowd of several hundred in Cambridge Common. Most were young. A group of high school volunteers in the front row arrived an hour early […]
A Brief History of Time A Poem By JOSE ESPINEL The beginning spilled light. And helium. And time. Across the newborn plane These raced to fill the void And this process we know Is natural. The glass says so, When spilled sideways and Unless the vintage is good You’ll never hear me complain. Also no […]
For Your Sake A Poem By JOSE ESPINEL For your sake, Child of present Troubles, Those – from kind intent refracted, An aberration or malpractice of That impulse to live, I wish you would know this: That in the parent’s absence peace persists Pressed as blissful comfort into lifeless things; The afternoon’s warmth, […]
A Letter From Donostia A Poem By JOSE ESPINEL Someone weeps alone in the dark. That’s how morning broke at camp: Vince or one of the other boys Announcing fully in tears The advent of the worst pox Adam willed us at age Ten – To be motherless and far from home. When […]
The Infinite Happiness Machine By JOSE ESPINEL “What does it do?” It: Unabashedly rubs shoulders, Even the rough ones! And its hands remain open to greet yours, Even the rough ones! Draws you close in Indiscriminate embrace, Sours your anger fully to Sweetness, Radiates upon your countenance A […]
Untitled I By Jose Forgive me, Gentle paramour, For showing you how Soft lead remains yet lead And how iron at a distance Appears liable to indention, Welcoming a hand to an altogether Unpliable surface. My deceit made so similar By unwilling nature of the thing, I hope you are merciful enough to realize […]
Untitled I By Jose Forgive me, Gentle paramour, For showing you how Soft lead remains yet lead And how iron at a distance Appears liable to indention, Welcoming a hand to an altogether Unpliable surface. My deceit made so similar By unwilling nature of the thing, I hope you are merciful enough to realize […]
By: Jose Espinel Poem 1: Untitled So many nights I’d branded myself Mycenaean And wondered in silence Whether Helen might visit my dreams If I walked down Allenby Street And continued into the sea. I swore I’d stay there, Devoting my days on Elba To studying the taxonomy of stones And other enlightened arts […]
By JOSE ESPINEL On September 15, approximately 30 students filed into Science Center Room 110 for the first meeting of the new Harvard Satellite Team. At the front of the room stood Maggie Wang (c/o ’21), Joseph Sanchez (c/o ’21), Amir Siraj (c/o ’21) and other members of the Harvard Students for the Exploration and […]
Ec-10 Meets Asteroid Mining By JOSE ESPINEL Take a trip to one of STAHR’s open houses at the Harvard Loomis-Michael observatory on a clear night (or get that coveted swipe access and go on your own time) and look up at the sky. Up there, that’s the realm of improbability. There are Wolf-Rayet stars […]