Index of first lines (poetry only)
A
After we said goodbye to Dad,
Generativity — Abi Wyatt
aunt rosie loved summer and baseball
aunt rosie — Regina Green
B
Body chilled by years of neglect,
Coming in Second — Ruth Sabath Rosenthal
By now I've come to parse the human frame
An Observation — Niall Murphy
C
class on genetics –
Haiku /Senryu for the Human Genre project — Juliet Wilson
clipped
Crazy Quilt — John Morris
creatures, a foot
FOXP2 — Richard Alan Herbert
D
Duplications here
Chromosome 17 — John Marcinauskis
E
epitaphs illegible,
Boneyard — Tom Moritz
F
For a time, the babies died so fast
Ogbanje (or ‘Children who come and go’) — Aiko Harman
From being to being in being borne
Helix in form — Neil Senzer
From the first blind belly kicks
Genome — Kevan Christmas
G
Genetics are the stories we tell:
Stories — Tracey Rosenberg
Girl walks into a bar.
Last Town on the Map — Chaya Bernstein
God’s lost.
Onion root tip through a microscope — Kenneth S. Robson, M.D.
H
How am I meant to encourage you
Stones — Aiko Harman
How like your wife
Grandfather — Ruth Sabath Rosenthal
Hunger sends us seeking its cheap white thickness,
Three Poems — Rebecca Goss
I
I am round and warm in the tide
Recapitulation — Niall Murphy
I fluster along the diagonal beach, I grab and cram,
Photophobia — Tracey S. Rosenberg
I was making love at the time.
SMAD4 — Elaine Westwick
I was ready to run
Chromosome 2: love remembered — Chris S. Packard
I'm a DNA Cowboy
The DNA Cowboys — Mike Holmes
I've got lots of energy
Genetic Love Song — Michael Dare
if I put words on paper
double strands — Angie Werren
In beginning,
The Meme Gene — Julian Derry
In methodical dreams
Natural Cypher — Mark Stratton
Is an ancestor of the Mimivirus
Inchoate Origins — Karen Booth
L
Lengthened gene on the short arm,
Fragile X — Nick Wood
Let's swap genes, let's try another pair,
Let's swap genes — Enid Nicholson
Like drums of air or swirling sea-tunnels or
Plans for Land — Martin MacInnes
M
Meet me at the speed of light, where mass
Meet Me at the Speed of Light — Laura-Gray Street
Mother sleeps, wilting in her Gerry chair,
Logan Square East, Philadelphia PA — Ruth Sabath Rosenthal
My barbed wire of DNA
Barbed Wire — David C. Sands
My father’s angina, we learned, was a serious myocardial infarction
Jargon — Kelley Swain
my niece she was
For Jaimee — Jay Coral
R
rushing past a white-haired mother
A Long Pregnant Pause After — Ruth Sabath Rosenthal
S
She flops beside me.
Trisomy 21 — Ellie Stewart
she was unable to distance herself
When I had much to do with my mother — Ruth Sabath Rosenthal
she wrote ‘shagetti’ on the shopping list
mam — Elaine Findlay
Simply Simon,
Chromosome 21 — Cindy Morris
So,
Pseudoglyphs — Francis Silva
Something to look forward to: chocolate cake,
Anticipation — Caroline Litman
T
The best way of surviving the recession is coma. You can let the bills stack up in the hallway while you’re in a coma. You won’t be charged for coma services until you wake up. Otherwise, sleep long and hard using the nod reaming technique. It’s free and time passes. Make love slowly while you’re surviving the recession.
Surviving the recession — Dave Lordan
The birds have it.
Communication Breakdown — JF Derry
The guide shushes us at the edge. Beyond
Primate Center, Duke University — Laura-Gray Street
The soles of human feet, in utero
Callus — Tiel Aisha Ansari
the stars are gathering into one constellation:
Premature Beauty — Stephanie Lynn Keil
The water nymph who named the curse
Ondine's Curse — Aiko Harman
These chromosomes look so much like teeth,
The teeth that rock above the cradle — Ian Watson
This chromosomal Usual Suspects line:
Chromosome Poem — Adam Roberts
Time said to the
the telomeric tale of the mouse's tail (after carroll) — shardcore
Too many chromosomes a fault before birth,
Accident of Birth — Wendy French
V
Veiled in shafts of light,
The Oncologists — Patricia Ace
W
When Gehrig lost his budding baseball fame,
A Cause Célèbre — Aiko Harman
When the sun stole her skin
The Illustrated Lady — Aiko Harman
with their father,
When she left her children — Ruth Sabath Rosenthal
Y
you are not an animal
joseph merrick’s bones — Angie Werren
your photograph:
Chemistry — Brian Holton