poem “Silver nitrate displaying our brain”, a Twitter-length Periodic Table poem based on a recent scientific study that used microscopically thin slices of a 45-year-old woman’s brain (after surgery for epilepsy) sliced into into 5,000 wafer-thin pieces and stained with a heavy metal so that neurons and connections are now outlined in an intricate brain map that scientists could learn from for decades, By Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

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Enjoy this YouTube video live 3/23/22 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems (including this one) from her show “Behind the Mask” with chapbook “Behind the Mask” live for Wednesday Night Poetry at Kollective Coffee+Tea in Hot Springs, AR (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream 3/23/22 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems (including this one) from her show “Behind the Mask” (and “Behind the Mask” chapbook) live at Wednesday Night Poetry in Hot Springs, AR (this video was filmed from a Samsung S9 camera and given a lava lamp filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Silver” (+ image), “Silver from Vegas” (+ image), and “Silver nitrate displaying our brain” + its image from the v330 1/23 cc&d issue/book “What Now, My Love” and her books“Periodic Ta ble Poetry” & “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” during her “Poetic License 2/5/23 global open mic” she hosted in a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linked in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).
Enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream (from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Silver nitrate
displaying our brain
Janet Kuypers
6/28/21 Twitter-length poem
for element #047 (AgNO₃)
#janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem
on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr
Brain samples from a woman,
from the cortex —
the part for complex thought —
cut into 5,000 wafer-thin slices
& stained w/ the heavy metal
Silver nitrate...
when seen microscopically
give a human brain map
w/ such detail
that our brains will still need years
to decipher our brain

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