The hand of Mrs. Wilhelm Rontgen

She saw her naked future
                before her funeral.

It went through stony flesh
                leisurely, like a ghost.

She lost (in an electromagnetic
                river) our nest

(our human nest built of
                faustian overbookness).

The lab, where photography had won
                millions of lives,

was dusty, achromatic, hypnotizing, —
                was almost a graveyard?

He got undressed and told
                his bones ‘hello!’

She was the wife of a physicist, her name was
                Anna Rontgen.


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