Taking their place
in the seventh row,
four new elements
briefly glow.
Verified all, there’s
heavy ununtrium,
heavier still
ununpentium,
quick to decay
ununseptium
and proton-packed
ununoctium.
Scientists say
they’ll have proper names –
let’s hope they won’t be
quite so arcane.
(First published in The Asses of Parnassus, 25 August 2016)
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