Saturday, June 03, 2006

having become 244

by Karyn Huntting Peters

such large and jumbled seeming atom
nucleus filled and appearing haphazard
electrons orbiting many and fiercely
nearly obscuring even the view of the center

yet peering inside i see it
and know its protons and neutrons
feel its particles of all types and their reasons
and know what element its identity

to see its essence to see my own, my electrons
having found some place in its seventh level and more
penetrable shells past the other's boundaries
some natural affinity having bound




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