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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem Gallium in her Opening Act feature (with music by the HA!Man of South Africa, with “azzuu”), live in Chicago 10/4/13 (C)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading this Periodic Table poem Gallium in her Opening Act feature (with music by the HA!Man of South Africa, with “azzuu”), live in Chicago 10/4/13 (S)

Watch YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading eleven Periodic Table poems in her show “Opening Act” with music from the HA!Man of South Africa in Chicago, including this poem (Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypers #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry

Watch YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading 9 Periodic Table poems in her show “Opening Act” with music from the HA!Man of South Africa in Chicago, including this poem (Sony; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypers #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoetry

Download this poem in the free PDF file Opening Act chapbook, w/ Periodic Table of Poetry poems.

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Gallium from the book Art is not Meant to be Touched live 12/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Canon fs200 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Gallium from the book Art is not Meant to be Touched live 12/18/13 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr)

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Gallium”, “Viruses: Entirely Human After All”, “Our Society, Glossed Over”, “Knowing that Instant”, “Do the Dead Still Live”, and “Exactly Where She Belonged (dreams2/29/20)” from the v186 8/21 Down in the Dirt book “Three Things” 9/1/21 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Gallium”, “Viruses: Entirely Human After All”, “Our Society, Glossed Over”, “Knowing that Instant”, “Do the Dead Still Live”, and “Exactly Where She Belonged (dreams2/29/20)” from the v186 8/21 Down in the Dirt book “Three Things” 9/1/21 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersinstagram

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Gallium Anticipation”, “Gallium”, “Nickel the Demon”, “Hydrogen Cyanide Escape”, “Do the Dead Still Live”, “Carbon Based Life Forms”, and “Exactly Where She Belonged (dreams2/29/20)” from the Down in the Dirt magazine May-August 2021 issue collection book “Lockdown’s Over” 12/1/21 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Gallium Anticipation”, “Gallium”, “Hydrogen Cyanide Escape”, “Do the Dead Still Live”, “Carbon Based Life Forms”, and “Exactly Where She Belonged (dreams2/29/20)” from the Down in the Dirt 5-8/21 issue collection book “Lockdown’s Over” 12/1/21 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with a bubble filter). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Gallium Janet Kuypers from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series (#31, Ga) (based on the poem “Almost the Best Part”) 10/2/13 Isn’t that moment of expectation almost the best part? How it melts in your mouth and not in your hands... Or, is it the most heart-wrenching part. When you think everything is over, you see that at 30 degrees C everything melts away. And you think you shouldn’t be doing this, that this can’t be happening, but on a hot day — everything is held in peril. Because as I said, everything can melt away. Yeah, I know how they say it melts in your mouth and not in your hands, but after a lick, it doesn’t have much of a taste, it’s a bit astringent and has a metallic taste that lasts a few hours. But as I said, it melts in your mouth and not in your hands, but no one even knows what it tastes like when it’s molten... But still, with a low melting point and a high boiling point and no toxic vapor, it contracts as it melts (much like water). It actually floats on it’s own liquid. You want to see it floating away on itself like that, you want to see what you think are the laws of nature being broken, so you wait for that moment of expectation, to see that moment of change, and wonder it that’s almost the best part.

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