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2NaCl(aq) + 2H2O(l) → H2(g) + Cl2(g) + 2NaOH(aq)
I’ve rarely seen the sea so calm— the weather almost balmy as though the world knows wind would blow me apart tear the bonds already stretched by atoms straining, seeking the resistance of your arms holding me together— I tell you this—send it as text across the waves from Scotland to Norwegian coast wondering if this is the one that will weigh the radio waves between us into wire powered by the constant battery of good mornings and good nights— So that on days like this when we both sit dangling two feet into briny water two million feet apart we might become electrodes— conductors in the beaker of the North Sea attracting orchestras of ions across aeons of ocean until— for one electrifying instant— I feel the tingle of the touch of electrons from the chlorine in the salt of the sea that kissed your feet tightening me back into shape— and I am Venus born from the foam of the telltale bubbles around me.
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