The great minds of Manhattan Project,
over cocktails at Berkeley
concluded the heat from a nuclear
test would cause a fusion reaction,
igniting the atmosphere as if to
roast God like a fat marshmallow.
Oppenheimer, Bethe and Teller
argued all night until the great ball
of the sun broke, and they refigured.
Acetylene of Heaven
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Re: Acetylene of Heaven
Intriguing subject. The poem feels like a starting point...expand on their work, and results. There are so many different narrators, perspectives to choose from...
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Thanks Bob. Making an interesting poem from an historical event may be beyond my ability.
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That’s not true.... you’re being too modest. Look at “Radium Girls”, your poem of Cuba, “Poem in Exile...” or your poem I just read “The Wound Dresser”. I love “Poem in Exile...”. I wish you would write more Cuba poems.
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Hi Ken,
Do you remember C.E.Chaffin from MELIC Review? He asserted a literary theory, I have found in general to be trustworthy: If the title, first line and finale are there - if this essential triad exists - then the body of the poem will fill out, write itself.
"Acetylene of Heaven
The great minds of Manhattan Project,
argued all night until the great ball
of the sun broke, and they refigured."
I read that here. And find the poem complete.
2 workshop shares:
1/ "roast God like a fat marshmallow."
as
roast God like a celestial marshmallow.
2/ and reconfigure for "refigure"
Michael (MV)
Do you remember C.E.Chaffin from MELIC Review? He asserted a literary theory, I have found in general to be trustworthy: If the title, first line and finale are there - if this essential triad exists - then the body of the poem will fill out, write itself.
"Acetylene of Heaven
The great minds of Manhattan Project,
argued all night until the great ball
of the sun broke, and they refigured."
I read that here. And find the poem complete.
2 workshop shares:
1/ "roast God like a fat marshmallow."
as
roast God like a celestial marshmallow.
2/ and reconfigure for "refigure"
Michael (MV)
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Re: Acetylene of Heaven
Thank you Bob. As I recall, you nominated both those poems and they both placed first.