Stephanie Strickland
from HURACANÕS HARP
choral quarantine of curiositEve Persephon
broken by sea by dyke destruction
reassignment male sailors faring forth to
murder
first to gold and god glory and the queensÕ
ambition
beyond pillows of Hercules
the goal
fantasia course by compass to hold
a hemorrhagic current fouls the archipelagoes
measurable pleasures
30 seconds or so of a nonchanging environment
are enough to relax Octofungi
ecosystematic metabolic path
the ingredients mass
whereas
bitomic life
could transit to the solar system in hours
ingredients instructions
only who
to receive
what storage-and-expression system
whale ancestor coming ashore air-breather
mammal
after a time returned to the ocean
digital biotics well adapted to space
is this life going
back
or moving on
escaping earth and the coils of DNA as Thomas
Ray asserts
to cross to jump the bitomic /
atomic
barrier declared frontier
the airy cages hacked reconfigured felled
unspared is it clear