Periodic Hopscotch

The game is set, the lines are drawn

between the rosebush and the lawn.

Squares of chalk encircling

                    O

                    Fe

  Zn                             H

                    N

                    As

Forming molecules, compounds, bonds.

The children don’t care,

they hop for fun from

oxygen to arsenic.

Kevin Meeks

Kevin Meeks

Kevin Meeks is a writer from Ontario, California who currently has an unpublished novel which he is working on editing. He enjoys feudal Japan, photography and Steampunkery, though not necessarily in