Clara B. Jones

Challenging the Central Dogma
(or Reptilian Poetry is Thermal)
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.12228

1	2	3	4	5
Testing	Leathery	Light	Metabolic	Reptiles
for	anoles	from	rate	and
tradeoffs	slippery	sun	consistent	Permian
experimental	unctuous	to	with	diversity,
method	bodies	trees	Kleiber's	evolution's
lizards	of	chlorophyl	Law	route
as	fat	of	scales	to
subjects;	cells	Krebs	with	Anolis
a	removed	Cycle's	mass;	life-
metabolic	by	Gordian	B (watts)	history
theory	scalpel	heat	and	function
weakly	and	web	M (mass)	and
supported.	scraping.	stressed.	vary.	fitness.

Clara B. Jones is a retired scientist, currently practicing poetry in Asheville, NC. As a woman of color, Clara writes about the “performance” of identity and power, and her poems, reviews, essays, and interviews have appeared or are forthcoming in numerous venues. Her collection, Ferguson And Other Satirical Poems About Race, won the 2015 Bitchin' Kitsch Chapbook Competition.
 
 
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