"The mind of the poet is the shred of platinum."
   --T.S. Eliot

Perhaps we should read breathing as an extremely dangerous but aromatic book, for we might feel our minds articulating a synthetic and inevitable ring.
In this light, the process of the poet resembles arresting facts which glow red when we insist upon a different color.
We pretend the essence of his work is due to its relative rarity, thus causing peculiar parts to be leached into individual bodies.
We endeavour to find something that can dwell in the poet’s flare, only a practical defense in the war to smother civil being under burning order, to dry cities with property, to exclude the immediate atmosphere of difference.
A Note on the Poem
The prose sections that accompany the boxes are collages of Eliot’s essay
“Tradition and the Individual Talent” and Wikipedia articles about the chemical
elements.

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