to set that Prometheus’ fire,
far had I flown away. Alas!
Words’ magnetism was like a buzz
of tension of a strong desire.
Yet, with your long time friendship’s colour
did touch me physics’ mighty force,
when, turning class into the parlour,
we spoke of the diffraction’s power
and bathed that beautiful “red horse”.*
12, 2009
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* Bathing of a Red Horse, a painting
by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, 1912