Day 27 of Poetry Month

Today's prompt: write about an element from the periodic table.

Krypton

I speak of “the hidden one”,

the colourless, tasteless, odourless, noble gas.

I speak of the experiment where William and Morris together at University College in 1898

took liquid air, and through scientific process, distilled the previously unknown.

I speak of 36 protons, 48 neutrons, 36 electrons bound together,

largely inert to reactions with other elements.

I do not speak of the native world of Superman which was destroyed

in a planetary explosion.

© Catherine Woods 2017