poem “Thorium smoothing the moon”, a Twitter-length Periodic Table poem about the element Thorium, #90, Th, after reading a scientific article stating that the moon may have such smooth areas, like along the dark side, because in the early formation of the moon with a planetary collision into Earth, that Thorium, and other elements like Potassium and Uranium, became radioactively unstablewhich generated heat at lower temperatures enough to settle the volcanic craters and literally smooth he moon, a Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem By Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table Twitter Verse poem “Thorium smoothing the moon” live 8/27/20 during the Virtual Austin Poetry Society New World Poetry open mic (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table Twitter Verse poem “Thorium smoothing the moon” live 8/27/20 during the Virtual Austin Poetry Society New World Poetry open mic (streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).

Thorium smoothing
the moon
Janet Kuypers
6/29/20, Periodic Table Twitter Verse
poem for the element Thorium (#90, Th)
on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr
Half our moon
is rocky & rough
& the dark side
is oh so smooth
here’s our theory why
if the moon was formed
from early Earth,
planetary collisions
exploded Thorium,
radioactively unstable,
& generated heat
on early moon
during decay
that reduced rocks
& smoothed
half
our moon

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