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Katherine Jones, Viscountess Ranelagh (1615-1691)
by Jessy Randall

You can reduce my brother’s law
to a marshmallow exploding under glass,

but we in the invisible college never meant
to put you to sleep, head on your textbook.

The anticipation as the marshmallow expands
is what we felt all the time:

about to burst.

Featured Poet of the Month Jessy Randall
Jessy Randall’s poems and stories have appeared in Analog, Asimov’s, Nature, and Scientific American. She is the author of Mathematics for Ladies: Poems on Women in Science (Gold SF, 2022) and The Path of Most Resistance: More Poems on Women in Science (Gold SF, forthcoming 2025). She is a librarian at Colorado College and her website is http://bit.ly/JessyRandall.

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