A poet has assigned one letter of the alphabet
to each of 26 nucleotide triplets that form
the basic units of genetic code. ~ ZME Science
Seed the idea of a world
in a cell—
Its blazons and beehives,
its cascade of crystals, mangroves
and mycelial threads.
Not the summary
of an event but the eidos of it. Imagine
a generation of cranes
rising from a plain
after they have been forgotten; after they've
become extinct. Don't we want
to lure our dead
loves back from the swamps of oblivion? We
feed language into
the undulating mechanism,
to see how it might withstand extremity.
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