Held each egg
contained
the entire embryo, writ small--
complete
with limbs, liver, and lungs.
Stranger yet,
this tiny embryo
also contained
eggs or sperm, each of which,
in turn,
contained
an embryo...
and so on, ad infinitum.
Each of Eve's ovaries,
by this reasoning,
contained
all future humanity.
I lay a hand on my belly.
Asleep in the darkness
behind my tidy navel,
a dormitory of astronauts.
Text for the first three verses adapted from Armand Marie Leroi's Mutants.
Illustration by Yoshitaka Amano
3 comments:
Simply beautiful. My favorite poem yet. As always, your perfect poetry outdoes itself with each posting.
Wow. Thank you!
What a gift. The thoughts, emotions and concepts. Very well done.
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