Chris Sawyer

Note: these are from "periodix," a series of poems using the periodic table and alchemical texts from the 16th century as matrix and current material science as aggregate.

Ir

Inside triangle a mundane
clarified Sulphur attachment it
forms animal golden
cosmic Tincture,
perform itself,
hook
this Finding
untying gaseous thermometer,
in proportion,
which bonding solidified.
Sulphur bosom.
Its Burlesque maintains bind
coffin.
Without blossoming it's drank,
which cold,
liquid Steel kingdoms.
is grows which cold
spiritual-physical
Sulphur Kingdom is crowned.
Child golden origin Tincture.
Kingdom truly in Spirit
hidden transitory,
viscous overcome its drinks
this ready virgin without
kingdom in a crystal-white
triangle.
aside,
nourishes Avarice.
sometimes it or quicksilver
products arising viscous kingdom,
Increase Principles Spirit seeds
spirit Sulphur Kingdom is
proportional quickly.
Gold,
at marriage sulphur/acetylene overcomes the
ass

U

Understood from a shallow Stone within
without,
MidSummer,
unmated,
prosecute that then pouring without,
Midsummer,
until or dead Stone,
rejoice,
miraculously a punishment,
upon Writing Glass even within
Instrument,
Midsummer,
upon projection again points continue
moisture Midsummer,
upon or that then melting-pot,
bound water,
without a Lifetime upon projection Plates
Stone,
Physicks.
Leprous perform Use is what drinks without
within,
unmolested,
Dark matter

Db

Drunk,
so much labor transmutes
showing Collar all instruments
done,
pure substance a quantity,
subsisting without feldspar
did cubit Rabbits
translates precious creatures
Trampoline,
difficulty put habitually
spirits cannot baluster
patch,
done pure Hebrew
being Spirits,
without feldspar.
division,
but habitual when
quality tincture,
silk,
difference but dubious
vacuole (writings)
thoracic Kingdom dismembered
cut subject uvula
Liquefying,
Spider Kingdom.
danger.
Sublimation,
Nobilitation requires
that pleasure overcomes a Dragon
sufficiently Manufactured Rings
notwithstanding Tactics overcome,
devoured putrefied,
Emblem of mountains shield
exspansion sometimes,
difficult musty Labors,
Mountain,
receive Oedipus overcome
Turbid mouldings
Emblem down enjoined
destruction a Kingdom due
Queen,
Emblem down in writings.
although performed De
Quinta

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