Ménage à trois

isn’t it a miracle that
three atoms have combined
in electric love to become
that fluid substance that
bears boats and wrecks ships,
and fills bays that breed and
protect life, sustains it,
—the essential stuff of bodies,
the billows of mist that rain
and surge through taps, the stuff
of glaciers that have weighed
upon continents for millennia,
until now

—isn’t it?

?

Jim Culleny
4/13/22