Last year, I wrote my first poem – 10 lines of free verse that, after three rejections and 229 days in queue, was purchased and published. Although I have been selling short stories since 2016, poetry is something new for me, undiscovered territory, something to be explored with exhilaration, enthusiasm, and perhaps also apprehension. Why apprehension? As a scientist, the two disciplines seem polar opposites, science based in logic and rules, poetry based in beauty and creativity.