April 13, 2007

In a first step towards creating artificial sperm cells,

researchers have turned human bone marrow tissue

into primitive sperm cells.—The New Scientist

Scientist:

I give up marrow for her. Let me see her as infant—her sand spots dressed on the tiny bag body. Take the white of my ridge and make the white of her brain glow up in our wombs. Unfasten this helix; tangle it on your dishes under your lamps so I can see how I fit inside her. So I know what this love is made of (bone). Let me see our tiny ten cage her pearly blood inside our frankenstein.