In Memory of Paul Ehrenfest
J.J. Shankar

Time is a blanket dragged through grass
smeared with ever-longer streaks
that speak to the futility of the past.

​I stared at your photo for a while -- 
those festive eyes above tightened lips
​that smiled the sick man’s smile.

JJ Shankar is a math major and short fiction enthusiast from Illinois. 
(Pomona College '22)