SCIENCE CLASS

Remember the microscopes, 

the beakers, the petri dishes?

Remember the saline solution?

Much of what we looked at up close

in grade school was in that salt water.

Saline is another word for salt.

Salt is a crystal.

Salience is a word that means clear.

Solution is a word that means 

answer. 

Crystal clarity is 

what’s needed to solve problems.

And that kind of clarity 

can be hard to come by.

To arrive at a solution 

you almost have to first 

become the problem, 

immerse yourself in the soup 

of the issue. You have to know 

how the problem behaves,

how it moves. 

You have to watch it 

like an amoeba

under a microscope.

Human beings swim in

the problem/solution petri dish 

a lot of the time. It takes 

the poet/scientist, within us, though 

to see that permeability is 

where it’s at - that we are better off

 just living the questions.

In other words: salience is 

in the act of osmosis, not in

the cilia and the cytoplasm.