Tuesday, March 13, 2012



In Part, At Least

by Jefferson Hansen

At the zoo vast quantities of food
are measured for the show. The curious
file in: a program
beyond the art of squealing. 
Your skin went a pale pink and shrinked
away from the derivatives:
this year promises to be the most fruitful
in decades for the discipline of
physical genetics.
They are lapping at grant possibilities.
In some realm of the culture,
one that we cannot yet know how powerful
it will become, we will be 'shaved and fitted
to a frame' as Emily Dickinson
predicted. Although she probably did
not have science in mind. Note how quickly
things can change in a century and a
quarter. The conclusion I draw is bland:
we must balance between the explained
and the inexplicable, remain cognizant
yet insist on the mystery. The will can
make its own wilderness. We must live
there. In part, at least.

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