Bearings Molasses mingle with soupcon of memory creating sweetmeat with your signature. My mirror notes the rufescent. I look for fleece. It teases me of the warmth in your woolens. Plastic is my way of bargaining with bridges that go nowhere. In this resume how do I wiretap the riot within? *First published in The Penmen Review* Whiff Whenever you drop by you leave me with a lyric. Is it the smell of your situation that stirs my olfactories …
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“Chlorinated” * Personal Essay * Liz Charlotte Grant
I. Chlorine (KLOHR-een): Cl on the table of elements, in the halogen family; extremely reactive, strips color from whatever it touches, heavier than air; discovered by Carl Wilhelm Scheele in 1774 when he poured hydrochloric acid over pyrolusite (which resembles a lava rock) and, surprise, a yellow-green gas smoke evaporated, filling Scheele’s nostrils with the bright-white smell of bleach. Chlorine was put to use in the cleaning industry for deodorizing and disinfecting; also used to clean human wounds. Then it …
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