from Solar Maximum ["How much chemical disorder..."]

By Sueyeun Juliette Lee
                                 How much chemical disorder
                 can be survived depends                on medical technology.
    A hundred years ago, cardiac arrest was irreversible.
                                       People were called dead
                when their heart                  stopped beating.
            Today death is                                  believed to occur 4
      to 6 minutes after                                      the heart stops beating
              because after                                     several minutes it is difficult
      to resuscitate the brain.
                                                    However, with new experimental
              treatments, more than         10 minutes of warm cardiac
                                      arrest can       now be survived without
      brain injury.     Future technologies
                                                          for molecular repair may extend the
 
 
                               frontiers of resuscitation beyond
                                    60 minutes or more,
                             making today’s             beliefs about
                       when death                             occurs
                                                                        obsolete
 
 
        merely transitory evidence          a stray boundary between
   a much longer-lasting            (invisible                     opposite polarities
         feature                                                             the fields annihilate
                        the field tries to                        one another
                             repel the intruder                        rapidly
 
 
 
                            velocities     directly                    shine in emission
                          visible                                                              shortly
 
 
                                  in terms of                  before
                                                       brightness                              totality
 
 

Copyright Credit: Sueyeun Juliette Lee, "SOLAR MAXIMUM" ("How much chemical disorder from Solar Maximum.  Copyright © 2015 by Sueyeun Juliette Lee.  Reprinted by permission of Futurepoem, www.futurepoem.com.
Source: Solar Maximum (Futurepoem, 2015)