December 2003

ISSN: 1076-7975

Molecules

by Leszek Czuchajowski
(translated from Polish)

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Molecules converse among themselves
on the first day of spring:
People don't notice us.
They know well that God created Eve
but they don't know a thing about us.
They ponder her seduction by a fallen angel
and if Gilgamesh rejected Aphrodite
when she made love with a stallion.
Did she have at that time a whip, spurs
of gold and a snaffle?
And yet they know nothing about us
we are dead to them and they are blind
to so many things we are dreaming.

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Leszek Czuchajowski leszek@uidaho.edu is a chemistry professor at the University of Idaho.

"What do you think" is from the collection of poems titled Molecules, Women, Gods and published by the Plus Publishing, Krakow, Poland, in  2002.

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