By Luke Childress
A PowerPoint slide over sugar metabolism.
Devilled eggs at the shop downtown.
My lovely wife smiles mischievously at me.
Bike tires rolling over gravel.
Snapping Legos to one another.
Ruined homes in the October sun.
Milk diffusing into orange Thai tea.
One. Second. From. Every. Day.
Lost. In. Time. Forever.
Struggle. Against. Entropy.
Luke Childress is a doctoral student and graduate assistant in the UAMS College of Medicine.