twenty three pairs of chromosomes
split and dissected and analyzed
if you ask ten carpenters how to drive in a nail
you’ll get eleven different hammers
pointed at your head
what everyone has to remember
i remind myself
is that there is no such thing as
certainty
–thanks, heisenberg–
you might get an approximate sense
of your current direction
or a somewhat accurate assessment
of your current position
but you won’t get both, sister
Tag: DNA
Poem 20150811
spinning and twisting
like a middle school
science fair
project on DNA
made of multicolored
styrofoam balls
jammed together with
white toothpicks
or popsicle sticks
notes about bases
peeling where the glue
didn’t keep it
attached to the poster board
points off for that
we twist and spin
an expression of genes
phenotypes
and madness in the blood
and in the bones
and in the loins
we spin
we turn
driven down
into the earth
like screws
tightened down
by the immaculate
divine
hand
Words and Feathers 