Experiment

I would like to be simple

  a puddle of polymer 

  pink muddling in a vial

so you could clasp me

  up to the light

  after a baptism

 in silvery

  superchilled nitrogen

  as if offering

me to some deity

  in a purple latex-

  gloved petition

and find answers

  or applications

  in my love, or hints.

I would like to be one

  of your experiments

  as you have been

one of mine

  superconducting

  signs and wonders

I can align with words

    and power a city

  in the psyche

your mere moving

  through the world

stirring images

for me to siphon

  and arrange 

  in poemed pages

but I am an organic compound

                whose application
                is purely theoretical-
unstable scraps 
                   useful for something
                   not yet invented
                                         perhaps.