#278: genetically modified

Earlier this week, the conference heard that aborted foetuses could be harvested for eggs & infertile women could one day give birth using a womb transplanted from their mother
      METRO July 2003

mother was a dead foetus

microlens egg
slipped out the me-eye

looked for her:

sneaky corridors

bourgeois haircuts

& looked face on at terrible desire:
greasy starlings
attacked a chicken drumstick

tiger-backed butterfly
I liked (more) behind glass

this
slip
of
ser
end
ipid
ity

sister    reverse    russian doll
gave me all    her matter
already I was seven months older
& ageing
             wordless
as a milkless pap

expunged into the world
like the shadow of the moon
into a mouse’s earhole