THE BELIEVER

February 2012

Albert Einstein

A new poem

by Matthew Zapruder
only a few people
really try to understand
relativity like my father 
who for decades kept
the same gray book 
next to his bed
with diagrams
of arrows connecting
clocks and towers

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Matthew Zapruder is the author most recently of Come on All You Ghosts. He lives in San Francisco.

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