I learned in lecture
that of the halides,
Iodine is a better leaving group.
Sterics: it’s bigger.
It can better accommodate
a negative charge.
Iodine is happy on its own.
While fluorine,
it loves too intensely.
clutching it’s electrons
close to the nucleus
but eager to share.

To bond
is to feel complete.
F forms shorter, stronger bonds
as if to say,
Please hydrogen,
let me hold you
a little longer.

Yesterday I learned
why we are made
of carbon
oxygen
hydrogen
phosphorous
nitrogen
sulfur.
Good building blocks
are multivalent.
Too much longing
for one thing
would tear us
apart.

October 2011

1.
looking at the stars,
I want for us to live there,
but it is too cold.

2.
hear cello music
and imagine your lover
holding you tenderly

3.
I like that the whistle of the tea kettle stimulates you more than the caffeine.

4.
I didn’t know
I was looking at Cassieopeia.
Fortunately,
There’s an app for that.

5. The Kiss
And they kissed for so long
they became part
of the golden world

6.
dip your worries
in chocolate–everything
will be fine

November 2011