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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem Flerovium live 2/23/14 at Chemistry, Poetry and a Brat in Kenosha WI at the Brat Stop (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem Flerovium live 2/23/14 at Chemistry, Poetry and a Brat in Kenosha WI at the Brat Stop (C, Hue Cycle)

See YouTube video (P L T56) of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Smelling Sulfur on 9/11”, “Astatine”, and “Flerovium” from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry” live 6/9/18 at “Poetry Aloud”.

See YouTube video (P L 2500) of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Smelling Sulfur on 9/11”, “Astatine”, and “Flerovium” from her book “The Periodic Table of Poetry” live 6/9/18 at “Poetry Aloud”.

Flerovium Janet Kuypers (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series, #114, Fl) 12/26/13 I’ve had you on my mind. I think you have been trying to reach me since before I was born, since before fission bombs were imagined in the forties. I would sense you, but then I’d look around me. There would be nothing. Where did these feelings come from. Since as far back as ninety eight I would get this tingling feeling every once in a while, and within a minute the feeling would be gone. Then I’d look over my shoulder. There would be nothing for me to see. And now I find that since oh nine the feeling now comes to me all the time. At times this feeling - like a bomb through my body - would rush over me, my bones would almost crumble from under my skin, my heart would race and my legs would shake, and I’d look for any island of stability to save me. How did I know I was looking for you. # Theoretical physicists postulate that there are more dimensions than we can see. Some speak of a fourth dimension. Some talk of ten. So what I wonder is that at these times, when this devastating wave comes over me, well, I wonder if it is you, coming at me from another dimension, and I haven’t been able to make contact with you just yet. Maybe I don’t know what’s good for me, you make me shake to my core but I want to know if you’re actually the one destroying me like this, from the inside out. When I feel this corrosive feeling inside me that I can’t control, maybe I should learn my lesson and keep myself in check, and leave the idea of you as just this feeling I think you give me.

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