When I was a child my dad worked on machines that measured the flow of natural gas through pipelines. Similar to how mercury was once used in thermometers, the machines used mercury to measure the pressure in the pipelines. When the pressure changed, the mercury would move and the machine would move and a little…
Robert Alan Wendeborn lives and writes in Portland, OR. His poems and reviews can be found in
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