We have returned from vacation, all three children are back in school, and today was my first day alone in my house with peace and quiet for writing and po-biz.  I worked for awhile on a flash fiction piece I’m writing for an anthology.  I read most of a collection called Sisters by Nickole Brown (look for a review in the coming days), which isn’t technically writing, but it does feed the pool from which my poetry comes.  And then a poet friend challenged me to write a poem about the Large Hadron Collider, which was fired up today in Geneva.  Physics is a particular passion of mine and I was very excited that they finally got the thing up and running.  So, although I know a lot about the LHC and what it’s supposed to do, I spent a couple of hours researching it, and wow is there a lot of natural poetry present in physics.  I’m dreaming of a whole collection of poems inspired by physics.  It’s a big task — it’s not easy to write about science in a way that’s accessible and evocative.  But I always enjoy a challenge.