MAPPING THE CITY: DC Places, Part II Gretchen Primack   THE ALBERT EINSTEIN MEMORIAL, WASHINGTON, DC "...an equation...is...for eternity." —Einstein Berks! I salute you for creating him on such a scale that my father is a child again, perched on his knee. He casts his eyes down to the cosmos, to stars hammered into the granite at his heels, as if he sat there to rest from this very labor. Have I the means to praise him? I could never comprehend what he conceived, even the effects of the effects of his conceptions. I wonder how he’d view himself, the Light glazing his sandaled feet, the sculptor's Energy, the sheer Matter of two stories of bolstering cement; wouldn’t his humility shadow the pulsing quasars and double stars crowded under one sole? Still, he’d find comfort in the bare toes, slouched middle. Berks—here sits your crudely frosted cake of a man, a wrinkle on the forehead for each miraculous formula. Energy and Matter are interchangeable.   Gretchen Primack is the author of a chapbook, The Slow Creaking of Planets (Finishing Line Press). Poems of hers have been published in The Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, Field, and Best New Poets. She spent her formative years trolling Adams Morgan and Dupont Circle, and she now lives in the Hudson Valley in New York, where she teaches with and administers the Bard Prison Initiative.   Published in Volume 11, Number 4, Fall 2010.