The Alchemist Discovers a Universal Solvent

The Alchemist Discovers a Universal Solvent is a poem written by Bruce Boston. It was first published in the magazine Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, December 1984. It was reprinted in the 1985 collection Alchemical Texts, in the 1993 anthology Air Fish, edited by Joy Oestreicher and Richard Singer, and in the 2016 collection Brief Encounters with My Third Eye: Selected Short Poems 1975-2016.