Today's poem is
from "Genomic Vanitas & Memento Vivi"
from The Kenyon Review
Bruce Beasley
's latest books are Lord Brain (University of Georgia Press) and Signs and Abominations (Wesleyan University Press). He teaches at Western Washington University.
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