between us and Henrietta Lacks
bright unfading colour
that keeps us thrall
I'm not alone here. I've met aspen seeds and sentient phosphorescence, Henrietta Lacks and the last Neanderthal
the jellyfish Turritopsis dohrnii.
Eukaryotes have a separate membrane bound nucleus, numerous mitochondria and organelles.
cellular, amoebic,
small, transparent animals
to an earlier stage of their life cycle.
this story should be an homage to a bond between
Aspen trees
that don’t reproduce sexually but asexually by essentially cloning. In Colorado there is a stand of Aspen trees that is 80, 000 years old
between our lives and Henrietta Lacks
bright unfading colour
that keeps us thrall
though all we know has a limit, our lives out loves our deaths
