After Stanley Kunitz, for dVerse Poets Pub
I hazard a look through my supervisor’s electron microscope — and the iridescent image swims through a mirror that flows.1
Matter becomes energy, right before my eyes.
Science takes a mystic turn.
- The portion of this line after the dash is from Stanley Kunitz’s poem King of the River ↩︎
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A close friend of mine is a surgical pathologist … I’ve looked at those images a few times, your description of what meets the eye while looking through an electron microscope is perfection. A great write. Cheers.
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Ooh great! I was totally guessing!
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I think our high school chemistry text had an electron micrograph on it
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Or maybe it was an ion micrograph, of the tip of a needle…something like this but in colour https://www.instagram.com/p/C-_tO_gRiwE/?igsh=Z3dnY3EwaDVmcDY0
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I love it when science meets the mystical. That kind of intersection fills us with a kind of humility and awe that we can so often lose sight of. What a splendid use of Kunitz’s line!
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aw thanks Dora
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Every time I step outside I see something amazing, too
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You guessed good!
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Nicely done.
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Ta!
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Good guess! ☺️
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Short and sweet, Catherin. Science meets poetry through a microscope — mystical magic.
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Ta Kim. I felt finished
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Such a fascinating and inspiring response to the prompt. I had a microscope kit when I was a kid, and the river movements remind me of looking at tiny drops of blood, pricked from my own finger.
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could you see the blood moving?
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Many scientists find mor wonder through microscopes than answers. To the most powerful point! Well done. (Thanks again for your editing guidance. ❤ )
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Thanks Susan! Wonder is life
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Ahh. Science is cool and I would love to see what the narrator saw…
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I have a scientific background and this is an intriguing piece of prose
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does it ring true? i was talking out of my butt
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As it so,often does!
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Like Dora said, I like it when science meets the mystical.
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Science, as per some scientists I read, talk about the mystery of science, the mystery of life and you capture that beautifully.
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Thank you Paul 🙂
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Interesting
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