Nicholas Alexander Hayes


Chain of Being

tetranucleotide
patterns
	that do not
	exist but
help us theorize
	that before
	dna

chains of diamonds
	looped through nuclei
	pulling souls
	from hydrogen infernos,

lattice across the pressure
	of neutron despair – 
	such hope in no escape
			as we
			recline on
			second empire
				chaises
 


Villa of Jupiter

obligate necrovores
	disassemble
		the minnows
washed into the
	grotto of ferns,
smooth bodies
silent in the tracks
		of ancient gatherers
	who gathered corpse
		honey from pan’s
	holy skull
		to preserve the
partners of their
labors,
	to marinate the
		links
		that made them
			holes.

Nicholas Alexander Hayes is the author of Ante-Animots: Idioms and Tales (BlazeVOX, 2019) and Amorphous Organics (SurVision, 2019).

 
 

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