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Spring 1990 • Vol. XII No. 2 • Poetry |

Bubble Hubbub

Bubbles upbubbling in water coolers
   when workers press taps for a cup. . . .
Potters working bubbles from clay
   so pots won't explode in kiln. . . . 
Network of early warning radar bubbles
   stretching across Northern Canada. . . . 
Gunner in bomber turret bubble
   zeroing in on approaching Zero. . . .
Bubble I drew in gradeschool
   inside which I drew
      my dreamhouse with me inside
   smiling out open window
      waving at trees, flowers, birds, clouds
   with my miniature bubblewand
      creating miniature bubbles
   with miniature dreamhouses inside. . . . 
Bubblegum bubbles bigger than heads that blow them
   collapsing over the blower's face
      like raw pizza dough. . . .
Bubbles 10 feet in diameter
   rising 100 feet above lakes in Java
      to burst loud as artillery shells. . . .
Bubbles bursting on the Ocean
   inject into the atmosphere every year
      500 million tons of organic matter. . . .
Air bubbles locked inside heat-sensitive capsules
   are set to trigger
      fire emergency sprinkler systems. . . .
Girl in bubble bath lifting her rump
   so her pussy scoops bubbles
      to pop
   delicately on her cuntlips. . . .
Boy with rare disease who lived his short life
   in a plastic see-through bubble
      and died without ever being touched
   or touching another person. . . .
Bubble of a frog's croaking throat
   three miles from Three Mile Island
      Nuclear Power Plant
   meltdown hydrogen bubble. . . .
Following the trail of bubbles
   from nostrils on top of the head
      of Brachiosaurus soaring under water
   to the scuba diver bubble-plume of today. . . .
Bubble of one continuous circle of air
   called a "Silver Ring"
      blown by bottle-nosed dolphins
   who play with it
      as it wobbles to the surface..
Humpback whales using "bubble-netting" to fish
   blowing a circular column of bubbles
      to surround and concentrate krill
   and then diving under it
      and rising open mouthed
   to the surface. . . .
According to Bubble-Theory,
   galaxies range throughout the universe
      as if glued to the filmy walls
   of astronomically huge bubbles. . . .
Sipping bubbles from wineglass lips
   thinking bubbles in bubbles
      like ships in bottles,
   each bubble a Buddha,
      each Buddha a bubble. . . .
Houdini escaping from locked safe
   after it was dropped into frozen Detroit River
      but being unable to find
   the hole in the ice it fell through
      to get out—
   gulping unfrozen air bubbles
      beneath the ice
before he found the opening
      saved his life. . . .

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