FEEL THEY ARE THERE

FEEL THEY ARE THERE

you can mine this poem
but there is no deep seam
of anything
vaguely precious

just the usual trace elements
nickel, tin, platinum,
plutonium,, uranium,
irony, cobalt
sulfur, silver

maybe the odd crystal
certainly
      whiff of fissile material
finding its way
into my system from
nuclear
  test site

exciting the life of
your everyday, regular
typical Geiger
counter

those cell smashing huge
particles
       ever so
invisible but
    we can feel they
are there

    V