Ancestral Equation Poem by Ewan Paterson

I knew him like an ultra dilute aquasol.
I contained one part of his solid particle
across a generation beyond Avogadro's
number.An equation involving carbon
unbound. Positive and negative in its
ground state.

An artist. He knew violence.
Bayonet charges on Prussians.

This makes our identical compositions
interconverted in a millisecond
diamond and graphite.
Hardest and softest.
Genetic polymorphism ushering
64 anamolous property changes.
The memory of water
cleansing the trauma
from the distance of his birth