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SODIUM THIOSULPHATE school poem in Genghis Lotus Poetry Collection, a selection of poems free to read online. Webmaster for this site is poet Hugh Cook, born in Britain, educated in New Zealand, and the author of, amongst other works, the fantasy series Chronicles of an Age of Darkness.
The spelling in this poem follows New Zealand usage, hence "suphate." In American English, this would be "sulfate." |
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Sodium thiosulphate simmers In a clear blue stream of bunsen flame That whispers round the testube glass Like hush or a wish. Sodium thiosulphate cools In a plastic dish which its heat Will disorder as its molecules array. A seed crystal falls; The dish buckles. The microscope focuses now. Beneath these binocular lenses, With white extending arms encompassing space, With the certainty of this morning's dawn, A matrix grows — To see a crystal grow is like Seeing a star as a sun For the very first time or like Finding a painting as truth — It is like your very first wipeout In jumbles of sea With the sun At the surface. |
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