First Post

 

On my research exploits to "catch" m-cresol in the lab. m-cresol is a smoke taint indicator compound. 

The scientific method

Just not the one you were taught

The one where Earth whispers in your ears

As you let your imagination soar

Running through the woods

The wind in your face

The warm sun on your back

Free

Uninhibited

Where

Answers are clear as the gurgling creek

And blue sky

Then, aside you

Appears the molecule

That you are trying to catch

              It’s hexagonal phenol ring rolling like a tire

              The methyl group waving a cartoon gloved hand at you

              The hydroxyl group swinging from damp branches

Here it lives and breathes freely

As your feet patter in its rhythm

With the vision

It barrels past you, goes off-path

And dances playfully, almost tauntingly, in the mossy overgrowth

 

Oh?

 

Science melts into nature, you are their guest

Where the answer is simple and pure

If you listen carefully

 

Show me that

So that I reconnaissance at the lab

With a vision deeper

This one different, and new, and simple

An experiment harmonious with the molecule

Now I am the master

And watch it like a key slipping into its lock

 

And when they ask why, you can tell about

Running through the woods

The Earth whispering her secrets

 

Now that’s the scientific method

I think we should talk about.