Poetry for Engineers: Nine Lives of Nikola Tesla
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Danica Radovanoviฤ is a writer and digital-society researcher based in Germany.
She is the author of numerous publications on technology and digital culture, and writes the Substack Digital Serendipities. He was born into a storm, lightning split the summer sky, in avillage the world had not yet heard of.The midwife called it a bad omen, his mother called it a sign. Your firstlife began in a storm, under open sky.
One winter night you ran your hand along a catโs back, and thedarkness cracked open with sparks.Your mother warned the house could burn.You were already chasing what you learned: Light would return. Your second life came underwater, in the current deep. No light,no air, the river pulling you under,the surface closing above you without a sound, andsomething in you refused to sink or sleep.
Your third life came at the dam.The water rose. The wall held you in place.One flash, you turned your body and rose back into air, and leftthe weight of water without a trace. Your fourth life came in stone and dark.
Entombed for anight in a mountain chapel,visited by no one. Only silence and the memory of a spark. You calledit an awful experience and left it there, untold.
Your fifth life came in fever,nine months cholera held you down,until your father said: Survive, and choose your own ground. You rose.Not from the prayer, but from the promise he made. Your sixth life came in silence, and it stayed.Every sound cut through you, a clock three rooms away,a ringing that would not leave, a noise you learned to bear, until youlived inside that noise and made a home in there.
Your seventh life burned on Fifth Avenue, not your body, but your work. Not a thiefof fire, but one who stayed with the blaze.A modern Prometheus, your lifeโs work turned to ash,โI must begin again,โ you said, and turned to new ways.
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