The Science of It

Put on Your
lab coat and
run this experiment:

Choose an object,
perhaps the cluster of
tulips Your
neighbor brought,
or
Your Persian
kitty pal
draped across
the back of
Your couch,
or
the watercolor
rendering of
a hummingbird
poised in flight,
or
The One
sitting
across from You,
immersed in Her
book about
gardening . . .

Now,
turn on an imaginary
hose made of
hollow dandelion stems and
connected to Your
beating heart,

but filled with
sweet Syrup de
Amor.

Start showering
the Object of
Your Attention.

Make it mushy and
maudlin and
mawkish and
even a little
melancholy.

Let it be
in your imagination
for the moment,
but pile it on,

shimmery and
sun-drenched and
startling in its
ferocity.

Now for
The Science
of it:

Where did it
come from,
this Gusher?

It’s a Mystery,
isn’t it?