Spectrophotometry, return edit

[runaroundabout]

SPECTROPHOTOMETRY

the blue of copper:
a moment
dissolved
diluted
loaded in the pillar, time
the circle pressed and stretched,
hum. Traces
of lead, silver, cinnabar:
a column of light
broken by streaks of blackness, the bands
disappointments
diseases
deaths in the household,
hum. Processing data--

not even
the subtlest implication
of the circle must exist

the dutiful scientist
asks nothing

today becomes yesterday
tomorrow today
yesterday the day before
then last week last month
and beyond Love the suggestion of backward movement in time.

--hum. Presenting
a line graph:
memories, stories
measured in numbers
tested through models
warped for the message,
hum. Ready

Only a matter of time... 

Aha! This reveal mirrors the processing of a scientific test, evokes the development of film negative into photograph.

A column of light
broken by streaks of blackness
well-measured,
each interrupting
band a disappointment,
a disease,
a death in the family
--traces of lead, silver, cinnabar--
with the whole being
just a perfect circle's arc
pressed and stretched
into this pillar
for the viewer's convenience.

Not even
the subtlest implication
of the circle must exist--
light is a line, not a wheel,
and the dutiful scholar
asks no questions.
Today must become yesterday, as
tomorrow becomes today,
and the dates on the calendar transform
into memories, stories
warped for the message,
marks on the line graph.

So our tests on experience
yield no statistically relevant results.
Try again,
if you can.

This reads as a meditation on incorporating traumatic events into one's identity. If spectrophotometry is the measurement of the amount of light passing through a given material, might this be a commentary on the amount of truth the scientist allows to pass into how they portray themselves?