Science Texts and Found Poetry
by gaston on Oct.09, 2009, under Blog Posts
When I was a Junior in high school at Millbrook, a girl named Lissa Harris was in the class ahead of me. At her graduation, she read a poem that totally amazed me. I remember being so jealous (and I think I still am) – it was a ‘found poem’ from science texts, and I remember a metaphor involving atoms, eyelashes, and apple stems that I can’t quite seem to recreate.
Point being, it was an amazing poem that I still remember, and the stanza about Van der Waals is something I wrote, more then ten years later, trying to rip Lissa off.
