beneath a balloon rainbow
holding two signs:
1.) gender queer
2.) pansexual
it is a sunny
'national coming out day'
on the plaza of the
americas
the photo bursts with color
like a balloon, like an explosion
and is set into the page
of the independent florida alligator,
the student-run newspaper,
beneath a hard-news local story:
EXPLOSION DISRUPTS
STUDENTS IN LAB
i look at the photo,
read the news article above,
and make poetry out of it:
"a student was injured early
tuesday evening at sisler hall
when a sensitive chemical com-
pound exploded in his hands."
"other students were in the lab
at the time of the explosion but
did not feel the direct effects of the
explosion."
"she said at first her ears were
ringing and felt clogged."
"you can’t take the risk out of
a laboratory,” he said. “it’s always
going to be there."
...
and then serendipity
did it's thing
~ Tom Miller