Circulation

At work I give people more time
on the computers.

I make oobleck and dye it orange.
Non-Newtonian fluids,

I explain to the after-school students,
are neither solid nor liquid:

ketchup, toothpaste, blood,
quicksand, lava, mayonnaise,

gravy. Ben tells me
don’t look Endermen in the eyes.


They hate it,
they’ll kill you—

they’re like black holes,
they can’t be eavesdropped upon.

Every day, a new science
or else cutting up images

of bingo vegetables or
calendars to put in their folders,

calendars of all the days
we have special things to do.