February: Year-day 42

    
                                     
                                           
February: Year-day 42

Flick.  Today is the day we celebrate
the birth of the man whose thirst witnessed light
electrified in a glass bulb, whose great
intrepid perseverance lit the night
for good, more perfectly than candles, whose
relentless genius heard a sound machine
lift voices from spinning, needled discs, whose
insight flashed to images/ on a screen.

That such amazing beauties should have grown
where we must recognize them as our own
are blessings to hold even as they run,
even as they fly past where they have flown,
even as they enter the charged unknown
to use so as to bless/ Tom/ Edison.

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