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Griffin
Invisible man The produce of optics Insanity The basket of refractive indices -------------------- (a Naani poem for H.G.Wells)
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Lithium
One for all you chemistry lovers out there! Lithium Friday morning, after a slow week Ready with chemical reagents and a syringe My hands...
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Haloclines
In secret places of the world ocean are vertical differences in salinity – sources of power Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic, Southern or Indian...
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Vinblastine
I'm so excited to have a poem selected for the first issue of Consilience. Please check out the issue: https://www.consilience-journal.co...
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Stay with me flame
You are mostly white with orange at your cone’s base You are mostly still and, by spells that are arcane and new, my muscles relax when...
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Fruit
I rub my wrists, being a male lemur, to produce aldehydes that smell of fruit they attract mates. I must be a dreamer! I rub my wrists,...
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Water (part two)
Watching carbon’s cycle and sediments from a shore, hearing the marine showers of detritus like gravitas These everlasting teeth,...
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Acts of service
Poems are written for others Tiny acts of service It’s important that others are moved by the words New drugs are discovered for us...
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Inflamed
You have the sun in your head An imbalanced sun with spots, shooting corruption These solar thresholds of pain are bisected, bites Not...
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Eleutherobia
Here is a short poem based on a molecule that I worked on in Texas. Eleutherobia A genus of soft, red coral. Motionless resident in deep...
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Butterfly crystals
Oh, giant blue morpho from Peru I’m intrigued with crystal-like scales that colour your wings of charm I move and your shimmer disappears...
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Water (part one)
Henry Cavendish paddled in science’s sea On the beach he found his treasure Solitude and silence were his cosy places until his explosion...
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Barrel of might
I’m a barrel of might, a river horse from Africa Can you see wondrous valences coming out of my skin? Red pigments built with carbon,...
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