Wednesday, June 27, 2012

genes of sunlight


Lawrence Ferlinghetti said that poets and painters were "the bearers of light". Somehow I can’t give up the hunch in my festering city of blood. It's telling me that our genes are made of light, that we can be traced right back to the sun, each one of us an ancestor of her luminous glitter. It’s no wonder we have such trouble keeping our feet on the ground—we were made to perforate through fence slats and summer leaves the way water pierces, but without it's blue weight.

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