Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Result of the Scientific Pinhole (A Poem)

Metol with phenidone
Dimezone and hydroquinone
Dilute the silver halides
That which hid in the light
Revealed now in the darkness

Tainted silver is immediate
So swift in its arrival
Acetic acid halts the war
Between the darkness and the light
Suspended in time is the blood of hues
Soaked into the spectrum
A discrepancy of grays

A trio of chemicals
The sodium brothers
Strips the animosity
From the hearts of warring opposites
Rendered harmless are the armies

Cradled in di-hydrogen oxygen
Wounds are gently cleansed
Treaties made in congregations of contrast
Separate chronicles made into a single kinship in sight

From the war-zone
Emerges a beautiful harmony
A composition of history
Forever captured

Etched in the landscape
A portrait of actuality
Interpreted in perceptions

Art birthed from symbiotic ingenuity
Exposed by means of chemistry