Icons of Their Time
What if we had She who was Would we have
Or just seen but real with © Penny Callan Partridge
known as children
that Lucy and Einstein
had given up children?
on every week,
he whose name
meant genius.
laughed less at Lucy
or sat up more
in math class?
that sometimes
real people
smart funny okay
real circumstances
don’t find a way
to stay with their children?
Amherst, Massachusetts
(This is from Penny’s book, ‘Pandora’s Hope.’)