Allen Fisher
Curie
Curie
At night workroom bottles of liquids and capsules of crystals
eyes accustom to dark see feebly luminous silhouettes of
containers glowing
Stood and watched “stirred with ever new emotion and
enchantment”
At a seance table their hands raw and burnt from radium
the medium between two physicists her right foot on one of the
physicist’s left foot her left on the other’s right
a disembodied spirit manifested ‘fluid emanation’
‘ectoplasmic materialisation’
the light suddenly switched
the medium naked of her weighted shoes
waving butter muslin
depressed and permanently tired
ideas on the culture dreamed of dispelled
disenchanted with radioactivity