DNA in Space.

DNA in Space

Stars are forming in space like a riveting

Dark brown river that folds and bends like

Taffy.  A star is born after a catacomb of

Vices collide.  Yesterday becomes today.

Nothing is quite so simple as all those broken

Promises, wrapped in tar paper, wrapped in

Christmas presents to be handed out on

Christmas day.  Maybe space is a lot like

Dna, twisting like a ladder.  Some people

Say don’t walk under ladders, that it can

Give you bad luck, but I wonder if the luck

Is all in their minds, as if it is created by

The thrusting outward of imagination.

I guess maybe you could say I believe in alien

Life forms in space, something simple yet quite

Not so complicated, something that forms on

The breath of it all, the breath of a heart,

The breath of lungs, the breath of touch.

And then maybe there are aliens and maybe

There aren’t.  No one knows for sure.