Thursday, August 12, 2010

Ductile Time

Melting points
Make crystal relax.
At ninety-nine degrees
A human may be drawn
Like wire over years.
Tungsten takes six thousand.
Dreams steam off at that.
Where do they go?
What current causes
Them to glow?

1 comment:

  1. What indeed?As we get older I used to think that wisdom from experience would inevitably flow forth. Those two questions at the end
    >Where do they go?
    >What current causes
    >Them to glow?
    are our elders' existential 21st century "Godot"!

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