straight down from the heavens I swear it! he says as if we might not believe him the lightsmith himself has forged this one you’ve never seen anything like it we follow him outside and he points to the horizon whiter than the sun and…
Tag: science
15 // noble krypton
when people hear your name they think of heroes and villains of all the colours that you’re not stubborn you hold onto yourself so tightly that you can’t let anyone in krypton we can make you stronger krypton you’re floating alone krypton make room for…
13 // manganese oxide (and others)
complete chance really that I was walking past when he took samples from the furnace stopped me in my tracks it’s like ultramarine but bluer think cobalt but bluer and bluer like takes-your-breath-blue a stable blue a blue that you can rely on a blue…
12 // blueprints
I get it from my mother he tells me as he sways on the kerb I look at him that vacant stare and think of those instructions tucked away inside each and every cell and I shake my head and wonder how many of them…
11 // red salt
1am stood in the take out eating shit food at least we’ve got red salt oh please give us more 2am diet coke just isn’t cutting it for you at least we’ve got red salt got you hooked 3am rub it into your gums let…
10 // chlorine
wanted to write about chlorine for weeks became it for a time hoping to find caesium thought it was poetic that it needed completing considered how the smell doesn’t leave how when I think of it I think of lifeguarding how I think of Jamie…
9 // [they said that she was cold]
they said that she was cold that it was impossible for someone to feel so little but she had never felt enough — that night she conducted so much heat she burned everything she touched
8 // don’t starve (together)
you better start working or you’ll be dead by the hour –characters dashing there aren’t any instructions what do we need what is it food and sanity –voice in my earphones how do I find sanity no no you have to not lose it what…
7 // fitzsimmons
in the laboratory we are home there’s nothing we can’t figure out the unknown is at war with us we fight it with weapons of our own– we have our numbers we have our stats and figures and theories we have hands that sometimes catch…
6 // [but mostly I need covalent bonds]
but mostly I need covalent bonds where I am more than just complete where I am secure and where I complete others where we fit each other where we share the best parts and the worst parts of ourselves and accept everything we take and…