The books are superbly done with thought provoking poetry by some of the country's best poets (there wasn't a single poem in any of the three collections that I didn't love), so do please get your free copies while you can and enjoy science in its most novel and beautiful form.
Six Flavours of Quark
Up, down
strange, charmed
bottom and top,
that’s the six.
You know them; mapped them; found them when no one
else even thought to look.
I see them lined in pretty rows
well, not see as such
too small to see
but it’s almost like seeing.
The sweet reds; sticky greens; cooling blues.
like Italian ices I would lick
quick
as a kid
tongue stained to match.
Their imaginary flavours
conjure childhood
goggle eyed
against something entirely new
unfathomably rich
impossibly sophisticated.
There’s something decadent
in being given a choice
something sexy, even
in giving a mundane, elementary particle
such sensual connotations.
