I worked at an ice cream parlor called Chadwicks. We wore old-timey outfits and had to bang a drum play a kazoo and sing 'Happy Birthday' to people while giving them free birthday sundaes. Lots of ice cream scooping and $1 tips.
Alchemy is the art of far and near and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.
