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Download this poem in the free PDF file chapbook “Interview to Poetry”, w/ her Periodic Table poems “Cerium”, “Fermium”, and “Polonium” poems performed during this hour-long event. |
Watch this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem Cerium live in Chicago 8/28/13 (C) at her interview & reading |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ interview and her reading her “Periodic Table” poems live in her Chicago 8/28/13 feature Interview to Poetry at Poetry Saloon at Noon (in the Lerner Auditorium at the Sulzer Public Library) where throughout the hour-long interview she also read her Periodic Table poems “Cerium”, “Fermium”, and “Polonium” (all read to music from the HA!Man of South Africa’s 2011 Hotel Music), and she later also read her poems “Too Far” and “Death Takes Many forms.”, and finished the show with Janet Kuypers singing her Mom’s Favorite Vase song “What we Need in Life” with John on guitar (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersmusic #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersinterview |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Cerium” originally read in her “Interview to Poetry through “Poetry Saloon at Noon” and read from her v5 cc&d poetry book “On the Edge”, then her poems “Explosive Energy”, and “Keeps Repeating” live 2/3/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera). |
See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poems “Cerium” originally read in her “Interview to Poetry through “Poetry Saloon at Noon” and read from her v5 cc&d poetry book “On the Edge”, then her poems “Explosive Energy”, and “Keeps Repeating” live 2/3/19 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera & a Sepia Tone filter). |
CeriumJanet Kuypersfrom the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series (#58, Ce) including the poem “Jumping from the Skyline to the Clouds” 8/6/13
Joining commuters driving
I watched majestic skyscrapers
as I witnessed over Lake Michigan
thin at the top, each cloud looked
framing this flat-land city, and
But all those clouds
by the early morning weather,
When the water from the lake
water rises until the air is cold enough
But the thing is, Lake Michigan
at times they even warn the public
(the same water Chicago filters
So I checked some of the studies
Lake Michigan actually contains —
from cadmium, mercury, lead or zinc,
That list included harmful elements,
off the charts came from Cerium.
in the human body, and you can
and with Cerium’s moderate toxicity,
itching, heat sensitivity or skin lesions.
spontaneously ignite if the air
that if Cerium’s in water it should
to stop a Cerium fire, since Cerium
Well, if Cerium fire fumes are toxic,
good for you — even when Chicago
Because Cerium in the water
is one thing, but no matter the toxicity
are over seventy percent water.
that Cerium goes into,
to it’s industrial uses, instead
And besides, it’s nice to think
framing the Chicago skyline
are actually more than just hydrogen
in a while, look at that morning sky.
a little Cerium
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