Beware a Spark

The Experiment:

Late in the day, way after the last bell's rung
and the choir has tired of its well-learned songs, 

and all the teachers have gone home but him,
he sometimes wanders into the science wing 

and dreams the dream of an old concoction:
two parts love to one part time, the reaction, 

hot as a Bunsen burner, that would connect
a positively charged pair. So sweet and tragic 

how their eyes first met through a test-tube's glass,
how they'd observed all those strange changes. 

If only he could teach that in English Lit,
make all of them understand they're good at it. 

Gary J. Whitehead.