by Karen Hubbard

it is nearly raining
unusually warm this misty December
overtures of the gray rain
moisten the lips of brown undressed branches

and yet
at our best
we are
as air and angels

Dr. Karen Hubbard is an Assistant Professor of Biology at City College of New York. In 2000, she won recognition from the American Women in Science organization for "Outstanding Woman Scientist." When she is not studying senescence using SV-40 transformed human epithelial cells as a model system, she raises a teenage daughter and composes poetry.