Contents INTRODUCTION SEQUENCE ONE Primer The Human Genome Comparative Genomics The Human Genome is a book that can read itself INTRODUCTORY POEMS Human Genome (1) Human Genome (2a) Matrix Everything is a Poem CHEMISTRY God is a Chemist God the Chemist (1) Feeling the Discovered Workings of the Genome Who breathed chemicals into life Does God Remember? Did God Know THE DOUBLE HELIX DNA My Dream of the Double Helix DNA Trails Revelation Annunciation Human Genome Annunciation (1) Human Genome Annunciation (2) DRAFT What hymn, what poem Only a few sentences in life are worth hearing Completion Revealing the Human Genome Slowness, at enormous speed The Human Genome Project – meTHOD (1) Sequencing Human Genome Project – Method (1) Working on the Human Genome Unearthing the Human Genome The Word LOGOS Life is written in four letters – the letters are A,C,G,T In darkness, The Word The First Syllable Explodes A,C,G,T From the threads of nothing Stars are written in the Night Sky God is a Poet I am a poem Listen, the world is reading The Four Letters of LOVE Rehearsing the Rose The Literary Trinity I am written in the hand of God I am words in unformed dark The Word is the answer We hear the page of the world opening Life is a script forever reading I am a story telling myself Like illuminated manuscripts We are the Word We are poems spoken Science and religion are married in the Genome (1) Naturally occurring antisense transcripts Listen again Some Ingenious Gene Words for Growing Body Parts Gene Research Papers - name samples Genetic Transcription & Translation rna 5sRNA Your hands are stars RNA luca ‘LUCA’ – Last Universal Common Ancestor Without the Word - nothing Wherefrom our understanding Nature, sprung improbably Darwing The word ‘Grace’ The Moon’s Word Animal of the Universe Was God Surprised by Us In coming to know the Genome Sky is reading my heart and eyes The Possible Children The ear of the Universe Writing my life today MUTATION Using the word ‘soul’ again This morning I dreamt I had tea with George Clooney (and congratulated him on his excellent exhibition of DNA) Spy DNA Isn’t it a soul genome our eyes read Nature of the Genome (1) Nature of the Genome (1) Such fabulous embroidery Genetic Squirrels As Earth shines Nature of the Genome (2) From light’s bright saliva Genes for Untidiness Bacteria Transfer of Bacteria It seems a bit miserable to be made of bacteria THE TREE OF LIFE IS UPSIDE DOWN The tree of life is never still Junk DNA JUNK DNA HUNK DNA Revealing the acute artistry of Nature All Life is One All Life is One (1) My white hands outstretched All Life is One (2) One root, one creature Four billion years we have rehearsed ourselves The Roundish Flat Worm Making Starfish The New Relations Comparative Genomics Comparative Genomics Genetic Tools under the skin Shall I dare to believe the mouse is my brother I live in the Church of Nature Once, I could smell you From star-death, gases, we have risen From strings of time, star molecules Behold the leaf in my hand Every atom, every molecule All strictures, boundaries, single vision Coming from the Clay Stars have become men God is the artist Made in God’s Image (1) The Shaman slots his software Even the wet stone under my green hand Paper Chain The poem of all the things I have held in my handsIntroduction.htmlSEQUENCE_ONE.htmlPrimer.htmlIntroductory_Poems.htmlChemistry.htmlThe_Double_Helix.htmlRevelation.htmlCompletion.htmlThe_Human_Genome_Project.htmlSequencing.htmlThe_Word.htmlGenetic_Transcription_%26_Translation.htmlGenetic_Transcription_%26_Translation.htmlRNA.htmlLUCA.htmlNature_of_the_Genome.htmlBacteria.htmlJunk_DNA.htmlAll_life_is_one.htmlComparative_Genomics.htmlshapeimage_1_link_0shapeimage_1_link_1shapeimage_1_link_2shapeimage_1_link_3shapeimage_1_link_4shapeimage_1_link_5shapeimage_1_link_6shapeimage_1_link_7shapeimage_1_link_8shapeimage_1_link_9shapeimage_1_link_10shapeimage_1_link_11shapeimage_1_link_12shapeimage_1_link_13shapeimage_1_link_14shapeimage_1_link_15shapeimage_1_link_16shapeimage_1_link_17shapeimage_1_link_18shapeimage_1_link_19

THE HUMAN GENOME:

POEMS ON THE BOOK OF LIFE

GILLIAN K FERGUSON

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SEQUENCE TWO Gene Zoo Organic whispering of the Animal Word In my kingdom there are no kings or subjects GENE ZOO: A Brief Welcome - Worm “Small Worm Makes History” Worm c.elegans We are called from the worm C.elegans, ‘the elegant worm’ nuc-1 Fly Fruit Fly Drosiphila melanogaster It’s not much fun being a fruit fly Even the disgusting fly, hellish bluebottle Just buzz oaf Mouse ‘Mus musculus’ Mouse Clues What map to bind mouse and man MOUSE ANNOUNCEMENT Mus musculus, the Common Mouse Behold the living laboratory of the mouse Mouse - I’m sorry you’re so convenient MOUSE ATLAS 3-D Mouse Atlas Gene Expression Database Embryo, Cashew nut-curled Mouse-man Twinkle-presence from the skirting Mathilda Mouse Fuorescent Mice TO A MAN Your Dream of a Tail THREE MOUSE TALES My favourite animal was a mouse Our Mouse A Mouse Ate My Notes Puffer Fish Fugu rubripes On finding out humans and puffer fish are closely related Re-awakened Pufferfish Gene On finding out one bears a stunning ressemblance to a Puffer Fish Suspended in sea, I remember the fish Also, Zebrafish Blood brothers with the cold zebra fish Green fluorescent protein gene The principle of creativity inherent in Nature SLC24A5 Golden Fish Fish Swimming Polar fish antifreeze III protein (BAA91818.1) The Age of Fishes Do fish cry? Let us call the grunion something other Chicken Edible Dinosaurs Chicken Resemblance DNA more apparent in the roasting dish French Chickens in the Yard Every time you eat a battery chicken The Male Satin Bowerbird is an Artist We do not know how to be afraid of birds EGG (1) Egg Two Double Yolks Realising What an Egg Is Dog Dog 1 Now we understand (1) Dog Map Dog 2 Our Collie Dog 3 Rat Brother to the Rat, Norvegicus norvergicus Feeling Ratty Yeah, I’m a Rat I know someone who looks like a rat Tyrannosaurus Rex TINYBRAINTINYBRAIN.01 T. rex Genome Chimpanzee Chimpanzee Genus Classification They stayed in the garden eating fruit Cultivating FOXP2 That blue pulls me A blaze in the brain COMMON PLACENTAL MAMMAL ANCESTOR My mammalian extended family Mammal Grown from Water Wee Shrew-like Creature MAMMALIAN GENOMES NEXT IN LINE FOR SEQUENCING What a jolly mammal party! Pharming DOCTOR MACDONALD’S GENETICALLY MODIFIED FARM Pharming Milk-Silk Cow Gene for placidity Highland Cattle on the Shore Today Moo Blues KANGAMOO Kangaman An animal beyond milk production Genetic Sisterhood of Milk Goat What coming is this - The Christmas Pigs Wings Remembering Our Wings Homo Avis The Missing Link Children’s Wings Blunt shoulders hurt Bird Star Maps Sunny Day Angel Today I saw a crow flying by with a piece of toast! Bumble Bee Learning about Flowers My heart is a bird Good Morning, Mr Magpie Lungs are internal wings Cuckoos really say ‘Cuck-oo’! God Sent a Thrush Poem of the Swallows Now we understand Now we understand (3) Now we understand (4) Now we understand (5) Foxes, like owls, wolves, cats, doves What art in a single silver scale Volvox Volox Goodbye to becoming the lion Gene Garden One billion, six hundred million years ago, we split Arabidopsis thaliana - Thale Cress Needing Sun Women Flowers The Lily Wears her Soul for Skin Earth speaks to my winter feet Snowdrops came like a prayer This genetically-inspired spring Touch them here, in the fossilised gloom Big pink happy petal face Remembering Ourselves as Leaves Now we understand (6) BUT NOT ALONE FOR PLEASURE’S SAKE And more than beauty in Nature’s cultured brain The Rose in my Hand Robert Burns’s Rose Now we understand (7) Why the Rose became a Heart Now we understand (8) Now we understand (9) Now we understand (10) Organic Purpose of Fruit Just one tree Blood roses The painting of a flower is a shroud The Rose being against all chance and probability - Tobacco Tobacco is a killer I Shook Hands with the Tree Once I grew older like the lichen The rowan has bled to death Desk Lily Water Lily in Scottish Garden Summer Evening Vase Us as Trees Tree Genome Red Stem Wishes The leaf does not want to leave the tree My paintings are like my garden Rice Rice Rice is enshrined GM GM Test Crops Who would leave the world open - Correct outcome of sun and earth chemistries The Dog in the Maize What Spores Invisibly Speckle ‘GM’ GM - People Fear Terminator Technology Terminator Technology Negative Script Seed Each Seed is a Negative Mine The meaning of a seed is holy Autumn is the Season of DNA Last Pansies Winter Garden snapshot Will my Heart Never Learn the Spelling of Content The Chestnut Aches Summer Shower The Rose’s Last Mouth Earth Poems Earth is the same language Whole Stories of Earth Connection My hand is the soil Barriers of form are pictures One frosted hogweed star under the Moon From Stars and Love Not one space The stone in my hand is a grey book Now we understand (11) Sea urchin spawning on the Full Moon Silver Highland Evening Landscape I hold out my burning palm Little Pink Savages Highland War Boys Sewn from Stars I hear the earth Blue Blue My coagulation from water Dissolution of Blue In the Highlands, you can see straight up to heaven Morvern Bluebells Water-bones Dance (1) Children hear the music Difficult Highland Landscape Beauty always struggles against the dark The Sky is Crying Tell me how to live Fat Summer My little bit city garden Why do birds go on singing Destruction Poems for a wounded planet The beat of the dark drum The unheard-of voice Space Freak We cannot see the wood dying White burning from the world While Earth burns He’s bloody brilliant that Goad I lay my hand on Earth’s brow Nowhere Suitable to Land The beautiful, lying lake The rowan is wounded This is the Hour of Earth’s Destruction Mass Extinction Mass Extinction One of the last blue butterflies Earth is laying down her creatures Destruction of Biodiversity Burning fire and coal leopard Who will help me mark the places? Until our gardens die Who would want to reconstitute us? How much is a butterfly worth? Regolith Earth in my hand Darwin’s Cup of Mud Solid Light Do stars and planets dream of being Earth Geobacter sulfurreducens The Spiralled Galaxies The Sun has Betrayed Me The world has closed its heart to me The New Moon Shivers So alone, blue planet Wow! Zong! Gee Whiz! All the land round here is owned WE, THE PEOPLE, WANT TO SAVE EARTH We, the People, Want to Save Earth We will not abdicate responsibility We will not accept the ruination of the world We will not suffer this to happen in our name We, the people, will not give up Earth to you Nature & Science notes If it is not love Empire of man over the inferior creatures of God Obviously female How eager are men to strip magic from the world Science draws attention to the magic of the world Described to the Last Molecule Nature is God’s love for life Master Grim and the Kingfisher Across the moor How long since I have seen the sky Romantic Revival 2 Goddess Visions You have awoken me, calling a name Marks of Gaia That shifting in the green Communal poetry of the world We welcomed Gaia at our feast The Horseshoe slipped I will make you a Goddess Here is a Last Bastion of Nature Beautiful root of an idea Difference Superior twinkling of switches All that separates us from the worm Differences Imagination, art, are not luxuries Human life, as distinguished from a leaf Contemplation of whether we were longer worm or fly Where is the working of the heart written We are symphonic Grand High Champion of Genes What Dreamed the Hand and Eye Insect-astronauts Genetic Arms Race under the Surface What they can do for us Let me remember I am Leaf, Bird, and Animal So much happens in the invisibility of life The Human Brain is the Flower of Creation Come into my forest now Tear GenomeSEQUENCE_TWO.htmlGene_zoo.htmlWorm.htmlFly.htmlMouse.htmlPuffer_Fish.htmlAlso,_Zebrafish.htmlFish.htmlChicken.htmlDog.htmlRat.htmlT-Rex.htmlChimpanzee.htmlPharming.htmlCow.htmlGoat.htmlWings.htmlNow_we_understand.htmlVolvox.htmlGene_garden.htmlTobacco.htmlRice.htmlGM.htmlTerminator.htmlEarth_poems.htmlConnection.htmlBlue.htmlDance.htmlDestruction.htmlMass_Extinction.htmlRegolith.htmlNature_%26_Science_notes.htmlGoddess_visions.htmlDifference.htmlshapeimage_5_link_0shapeimage_5_link_1shapeimage_5_link_2shapeimage_5_link_3shapeimage_5_link_4shapeimage_5_link_5shapeimage_5_link_6shapeimage_5_link_7shapeimage_5_link_8shapeimage_5_link_9shapeimage_5_link_10shapeimage_5_link_11shapeimage_5_link_12shapeimage_5_link_13shapeimage_5_link_14shapeimage_5_link_15shapeimage_5_link_16shapeimage_5_link_17shapeimage_5_link_18shapeimage_5_link_19shapeimage_5_link_20shapeimage_5_link_21shapeimage_5_link_22shapeimage_5_link_23shapeimage_5_link_24shapeimage_5_link_25shapeimage_5_link_26shapeimage_5_link_27shapeimage_5_link_28shapeimage_5_link_29shapeimage_5_link_30shapeimage_5_link_31shapeimage_5_link_32shapeimage_5_link_33
SEQUENCE THREE Gene Story Science is a Great Story Inward and outward, the eyes of science Animalcules “omnis cellula e cellula” An Exceptionally Brief Sketch on the History of Genetics A bisexual mollusc with a vertebra but no head Mendel’s Peas Mendel’s Peas Evolution is a Biological Dance Factor, gemmule, plastidule, pangene, biopjor, id, idant Gene TIMELINE TIMECHART Such story and dance in the soul of Science The Human Genome Project Olympian endeavour Some history of the Human Genome Project Such a map, such a pattern Science puts on her tiara Imagine the recipe for a hand I see a Da Vinci and Gingerbread Man shape Dark Wardrobe of Ourselves The Skins of the World are Falling Maps Genomic Map Genomic Map, Uncharted Territory Haplotype Map Plotting populations It is harder to map one human being Maps within maps Gene Atlas Extreme interior topography What name for the libraries of the world How beautiful will be the proteome - SEQUENCING Accelerated Sequencing Reading the book of life Computer Sequencing of the Human Genome What were the genomic sequences like? If we broke Van Gogh’s sunflowers Sequencer Digital Ark Genomic Grids Grid Nirvana Downloading a Man Romantic Science In which our poet gamely enters the 21st Century world of science… The Genome is a Poem Poetry and Science among the Stars Never again will the amateur scientist be able to keep up - Why is it less the poet’s task Magical Fact Give me anything and I will give you art! Celtic Catherine Wheels of Spiralled Galaxies Precision is a dream; an approximation Some visions, dreams, miracles and revelations in science Precision is a dream, an approximation KEKULE VISIONS OF CARBON ATOMS Life is dancing, Kekule dreamt Romantic Science Organic and metaphorical burning Earth turns in her half-eyed sleep From swimming atoms of a star The rainbow is one The leaf’s live chemistry Science has no immunity to metaphor – Kirlian photography shows The mechanism of the dandelion Setting a lamp to capture luscious moths Most suitable terms Energy is necessary to the biological - Brief romp through the relationship of poetry and science, now largely, and sadly, estranged How can we fail to wonder more The word of poetry grew from the first earth Into the heart I went The poorest man is surrounded by miracles At the ultimates If the flower is described to the last atom Aw, c’mon, a wiz just ha’en forty winks Tramplers of the soul - O arrogant Men Why do I collect? Child… Erasmus is prickling me the way dead people sometimes do – Is this what we have to thank for poets droning on… Rocking in its blue sky socket, the world Where yet imagination in the scheme of things Love is complex biology I’ve heard said How shall we sing of such things If I am a poor uneducated child, the stars still shine The poet walked so many miles Science has stolen more than its due How shall we say goodbye to God We have become as strangers, distrusting tribes Drawn to the Genome’s honey-pot Has Science a moral dimension Throw open the gates of science As children now, Science and Poetry Fashionable Language Dead People’s Rings Poets’ Genome Poetry & Science: Weird Sisters Medicine An era of healing, if not of needed peace – Medical Revelation Virtual Dissection We have become as glass Prediction Scientific and clinical omen Imagine the story in the time of the Genome Chemical Crystal Ball Each Drop of Blood is a Book Physically Psychic Omens Damage to the code Where surgeons blind Reading and understanding are not twins - The living grammar of the body corrected Primitive Sophisticate The Secret Dark of Us Poem of me rendered without art Mission Jesus could look into the Genome From diabetes to a royal sheep Sifting for gold molecules When You Were Ill Streptococcus pyogenes/Group A streptococci Trypanosoma brucei There are no stories in picture books about germs Cancer The Word of Cancer IMMORTAL CELL LINES Henrietta Lacks Day Dismantling Cancer Large Sugar Molecules Programmed Cell Death Genes under attack P53, Guardian Angel of the Genome Malaria Anopheles gambiae - Mosquito Genome Who would have suspected the mosquito Cloned Lines on ‘Mosquito Day’ by Ronald Ross, 1897 - Mosquito Allergy Gene Therapy To lay a hand on an existing poem Gene Therapy Interior, invisible genetic mending Germline Engineering Go tiny ship What Kind of Frivolous Human Manipulation of the Genome Stem Cells STEM CELLS, A HANDY GUIDE Stem cells are biological magic Stem Cells What magic is this, exposed - Can we learn again, so long settled Manipulation of life’s plasticity Each stem cell is a first star External orchestration of miraculous internal force – Dr Who’s Regeneration In the bowl of my mother Homo Leporidae Rabbitman Some Special Genes SPEECH “Language is born of instinct” Being a writer is not a choice I wish I had never corrected your baby tongue ‘Laboratory rats demonstrated their linguistic abilities’ At Night the Animals Come to Me… I’ve heard that the stars and planets are singing Bird and human music from star molecules Embryology Among all the startling dreams of men Harvested from stars Embryology The watch and the watchmaker are one I played with strings of DNA Life passes her wand across the dark Life would not be thought possible The Grid of my Body Where did I come from, mummy? Homeotic Genes Organic and chemical orchestration Hox Genes Spooling from the dark Science uncovers the miraculous Gene sequences switch Off/On Complexity from Simplicity We are the Master Print My body has heard the Word - Not in charge Mixing our Genomes Culture of four billion years Embryo Story THE BEGINNING: oocyte - zygote - cleavage - morula – blastocyst - blastosphere - gastrula DIFFERENTIATION In the heart of things, we have seen mysteries We are embroidered on the black Universe From one, many The Amazing Tale of Cell Division prophase - spindle - poles - prometaphase - metaphase - anaphase Everything Begins with One: Cell Division The Polar Body UNIQUENESS My shine was there I am never to be repeated When I became a mother I understood life’s highest arts Are we the dream BRAIN Brain Genes DANCE (2) I am a dance There is a dance at the heart of life Immortality Telomeres Bitter Taste Heart Muscle Gene Sprung Muscle Gene of Delight The ‘Selfish’ Gene CONCEPT OF THE SELFISH GENE Selfish Gene So Evolution is not a grand scheme of things MIGHTY METAPHOR Caution: Handle These Words with Care COOPERATION The Co-operative Gene 1 Nothing matters except that which is left out The ‘Co-operative Gene’ doesn’t have quite the same ring The selfish gene is a myth Ultimate Co-operation of Genes I could not be more Scottish The Selfish Man is the Rotten Apple Co-operative Gene 2 Cloning CLONING STORY Replication Impossible stars Three Cloned Mice Working on Cloning In imitation of Nature, ripple of God The Art of Cloning Let us borrow the discovered wand of life The starfish could not live without being a star Gardeners feel god-like Frostie the Frozen Calf Hello Dolly She has walked from mythology As the light of dead stars still shines Dolly was spun, knitted from the Universe I did not dream of sheep Dolly, Dolly, (the Sheep), give me your answer true The World’s First Celebrity Sheep The concept of a celebrity sheep called Dolly Roll up, roll up, see the freakish sheep Is Dolly still the lamb of God, ‘Miss Dolly, could I ask you how it feels?’ Let’s freeze all bores’ semen The Age of Dolly Sheepy Freaks The Sheep of Ages What a bonnie wee lamb Ma mammy wiz a Finn-Dorset TAFFY AND TWEED – ALMOST FAMOUS Taffy’s Monologue In this small country COPYCAT Human Cloning Re-cycling Magic Genes The Genome is not a fixed entity If I could call you back into skin You could be twins Eve rewound I have been here before but I cannot remember Who should be cloned? Influx of clones I wanted to write a clone poem Cloned Poem Cloned Poem Twins are not the same person Consciousness hatches each time anew Nine-banded Armadillo’s Poem We begin with fusion Walking Clone Replication is a side-show Rudimentary Bacterial Sex’ The printing press is altered Nature loves everything alive My own poetry Drawing the Line Nature & Nurture I cannot see my heart, unopened rose You came smiling Another for Comrie Such bright shuffling Mad is the same kind of word as ghost, spirit, witch, nymph Ex-smoker I knew it was genetic Help me Lord for I am genetically weak X & Y Union of X and Y X+X = Woman; X+Y = Man XX - kiss, kiss Y Chromosome How delicious such redundancy Man Creature under Threat Self-fixing Y Chromosome He has shrunk A Tiny and Almost Inert Stub Distillation of the alien male Perhaps it is fear of inferiority that makes men fear equality SRY Gene – Master Switch SRY Gene I never knew a man who did not like a dress Of course Nature is a Woman First, we are all women God the Mother (You Know it Makes Sense) Acrea Encedon Butterflies Butterflies begin as men It is not the white intoxication of lilies Even your breath is different Sex Wars Man is an alteration to the chemistry PERPETUAL ICE (Interlocus Contest Evolution) X Chromosome X Marks the Star Chromosome Placenta Placenta Design Fault (Placenta) The alien has landed How long has the silent war been lost by women Perpetual ICE (interlocus contest evolution) I hope you bloody remember sometimes Peacock Tail Genes Women Love Poets Sex Celtic Spiral Fingerpad Among all People Humble Volvox inventing sex and death Sex is not designed for pleasure Magical Fusion Parthenogenesis The salmon leaps cleanly to the stars If parthenogenesis became possible next week In such genetic union Homo Fungi Imperfecti Penis envy is a dreadful conceit Egg (2) The egg is a small universe What a clutch! Already within My father saved the blackbird’s children Each egg lost Thoughts of a Dissatisfied Wife about Genomic Imprinting The Bottling – Primordial Germ Cells My Little Boy’s Babies The story of my little boy’s babies Some notes on the Gender of Science Of all man’s strengths Reason is a blade (Lost) Letter to Clarinda The Fond Feminine You can take a man to a woman’s exam results…SEQUENCE_THREE.htmlGene_story.htmlMendels_Peas.htmlThe_Human_Genome_Project_%282%29.htmlSome_history_of_the_Human_Genome_Project.htmlMaps.htmlHaplotype_Map.htmlGene_Atlas.htmlSequence_3_Sequencing.htmlGenomic_Grids.htmlRomantic_science.htmlSome_visions.htmlSome_visions.htmlSome_visions.htmlBrief_romp_through.htmlBrief_romp_through.htmlMedicine.htmlPrediction.htmlMission.htmlCancer.htmlMalaria.htmlGene_Therapy.htmlStem_Cells.htmlSome_special_genes.htmlEmbryology.htmlHomeotic_genes.htmlEmbryo_Story.htmlThe_Amazing_Tale.htmlThe_Amazing_Tale.htmlImmortality.htmlThe_Selfish_Gene.htmlCloning.htmlThe_art_of_cloning.htmlHello_Dolly.htmlThe_worlds_first_sheep.htmlHuman_Cloning.htmlNature_%26_Nurture.htmlX_%26_Y.htmlY_Chromosome.htmlSRY_Gene.htmlSex_wars.htmlX_Chromosome.htmlPlacenta.htmlSex.htmlParthenogenesis.htmlEgg.htmlSome_notes_on_the_Gender_of_Science.htmlshapeimage_6_link_0shapeimage_6_link_1shapeimage_6_link_2shapeimage_6_link_3shapeimage_6_link_4shapeimage_6_link_5shapeimage_6_link_6shapeimage_6_link_7shapeimage_6_link_8shapeimage_6_link_9shapeimage_6_link_10shapeimage_6_link_11shapeimage_6_link_12shapeimage_6_link_13shapeimage_6_link_14shapeimage_6_link_15shapeimage_6_link_16shapeimage_6_link_17shapeimage_6_link_18shapeimage_6_link_19shapeimage_6_link_20shapeimage_6_link_21shapeimage_6_link_22shapeimage_6_link_23shapeimage_6_link_24shapeimage_6_link_25shapeimage_6_link_26shapeimage_6_link_27shapeimage_6_link_28shapeimage_6_link_29shapeimage_6_link_30shapeimage_6_link_31shapeimage_6_link_32shapeimage_6_link_33shapeimage_6_link_34shapeimage_6_link_35shapeimage_6_link_36shapeimage_6_link_37shapeimage_6_link_38shapeimage_6_link_39shapeimage_6_link_40shapeimage_6_link_41shapeimage_6_link_42shapeimage_6_link_43shapeimage_6_link_44shapeimage_6_link_45shapeimage_6_link_46
SEQUENCE FOUR Ethics Science comes in her mineral robes Communal Script We are the owners of everything science reveals The wild spirit of science The Human Genome Project – Public versus private A SAGA The Scene is set… There are goodies and baddies in this world, my child An angel metamorphosed from darkness Public Servants, Private Masters The soul of science is a vagabond Science is a freelance spirit So the argument comes down to the inarguable sort – God’s burning silver fingerprints Human Genome Projects: Public versus Private An epic This grail is writing Who are these tiny gods Fundamental mismatch in the model Human Genome - Nature’s Grail Human Genome Project – Method (2) Spirit of symbolism in sequencing Beyond the enormity of atoms Truce SKIRMISH Gene Patenting Under your sequenced nose, people Leaf Patent Patenting Chaffinches Locked in working molecules Patenting Look, I have invented the butterfly! I am an original work, not for sale There can be no ownership of the Genome Asking Daisies I am the Patent of the Flower What is the identity of a star I have taken out patent on the stars Money Money for old Nature… THE SALE OF THE BILLENNIA! Money for Old Genome When a flower is sold Self-winding mechanism We are the authors of ourselves ‘Madam, have you taken out a patent on that child?’ In my palm, six white rice bodies Stealing rice from Nature’s own inventory ‘Super-rice’ What drugs may come from different motives The Genome spinning industry What a pack of fleas on the Genome Eugenics/Designer Children Nature’s Software Genetically manipulating evolutionary shortcuts Poor Applications of Genomic Knowledge A perfect population Men will always go to extremes The child slunk through the whispering field New genetic technologies - principle, consultation, discussion Stigma The genetic mark What genius might genetic weedkiller expunge Discrimination/Work/ Insurance Writing on the forehead If you ain’t moderate by nature The original prints of my behaviour Here is my physical story Genetic espionage Martyr to my Genes Are there not already genetic underclasses Go back to the stars and sue Beautiful mutants Effects on Society’s DNA The Genome has remained invisible to most Some Even Further Implications My story can be explained These genes made you my brother Genetic Terrorism Internal weapons Layperson trying to assess the dangers Opinion Polls/Public Perception/Power Man/furniture morph Given the right presentation Blood Poems Blood is red script Genes are the chemical ghosts of the dead From one root ball Blood is a red poem One drop spilled Why could I not have met you before you were dead Genomic Co-operation Elevation of principle to visibility in practice BROTHERHOOD Humanity is a blood family More binding than continents or countries When we cry for strangers What liquid art of humanity The tear I cry for another “Only 2% of troops on the frontline shoot to kill” Fine People Origins We are all black in our genes Racism is an illogical concept The Genographic Project From the swab of my cheek Cosmopolis Yeah, let’s poke our noses in - Chinese Rice, 1990 The Genome is a good chain The children of the world are our responsibility Society Society is biologically innate One shifting fabric Scene: The Mound, Edinburgh, Scotland Home Moving to the Highlands The word home Genetically Scottish Calling on dead poets for comfort and courage Staring sheep - late evening, Morvern, Highlands, Scotland Child What dance of genes Black Mirrors with Two Stars Each child is a work of art We are still one, in nature Four Billion Years of Work How lovely the souls of children Only children and lambs My child is Creation’s highest art Small Sparkling Stories Children and animals seem preferable to adults All children are our children Zoing! POW! Zap! Gazooks! Holy-Moley-More God! Science and religion are not the right and left hand of thought Marriage of Science and Religion (2) Maybe Zeros and Ones of Existence Made in His image Viral understanding of Jesus I saw a word in the darkness - Guddling amongst the genes Maybe scientists are catching up with artists! Maybe Science is catching up with God! Science and religion both The impulse to create God in the mind It’s not so hard to think of ourselves as script We stand as poems in a poem From the dust of stars came letters The notion of Evolution does not kill God Evolution makes the case for God Genome without a body Umbilical Soul Why steal God ‘Quantum religio potuit suadere malorum’ – how many crimes has religion made people commit Look, ye cannae blame Goad fir his foallowers We made God to our own design We have made God in our own image Men felt it necessary to have a war against God Don’t blame God for how we made him up God is possible again Holy Physics Poem of Holy Physics What inhabits the space, is Defineable as a Mongoose A Universe just like this one There cannot be a Theory of Everything, without Love Perhaps God knew everything first The necessity of faith is obvious, though tough Life seems a painting over light My touching of you is a miracle of illusion – I cannot know you as skin and bones The heart as universal geiger counter If I could understand the force that sent this little pink flower I’ve always looked up when I think of God Lord, Lord, where are you – Fun Holy Equation The Genome is but deeper, nearer Aesthetic echoes Slow Creation God is shorthand for the hands of time Did God know the poem of the world Maybe this is the resurrection of the body Ingredient and circumstance of the Universe Animals, plants too Genes hold the Garden of Eden together God is the Lordly Tree GOD IS GREEN More Religious Chemistry Jesus had DNA Jesus brought God what he had learned God the Chemist (2) Drawn from earth To be is to be like God No conflict in the slow watchmaker Best Proof of Paley’s Watchmaker Darwin is studying the genome Artificial Life Makin an artificial beastie It’s life, Jim… Like witches, magicians, scientists coiling DNA Mycoplasma genitalium I am the Plagiarist Mycoplasma genitalium Yoos doon there Did you know as you slumbered in ignorance And now we have the human pattern Unfolding of knowledge and beauty GENOMIC VISION Human Genome Project: Culmination and Revolution The Genome has slipped into knowledge Enquiring Biological Poem We have discovered we are like angels The Human Genome is a chemical dreamSEQUENCE_FOUR.htmlEthics.htmlPublic_versus_Private.htmlPublic_versus_Private.htmlPublic_servants.htmlPublic_servants.htmlHuman_Genome_Project_Method_%282%29.htmlTruce.htmlGene_Patenting.htmlMoney.htmlEugenics.htmlStigma.htmlDiscrimination_Work_Insurance.htmlDiscrimination_Work_Insurance.htmlOpinion_Polls_Public_Perception_Power.htmlOpinion_Polls_Public_Perception_Power.htmlBlood_Poems.htmlGenomic_Co-Operation.htmlOrigins.htmlCosmopolis.htmlSociety.htmlHome_The_Human_Genome.htmlChild.htmlHoly-moley-more_God%21.htmlHoly_Physics.htmlMore_religious_chemistry.htmlArtificial_Life.htmlGenomic_Vision.htmlshapeimage_7_link_0shapeimage_7_link_1shapeimage_7_link_2shapeimage_7_link_3shapeimage_7_link_4shapeimage_7_link_5shapeimage_7_link_6shapeimage_7_link_7shapeimage_7_link_8shapeimage_7_link_9shapeimage_7_link_10shapeimage_7_link_11shapeimage_7_link_12shapeimage_7_link_13shapeimage_7_link_14shapeimage_7_link_15shapeimage_7_link_16shapeimage_7_link_17shapeimage_7_link_18shapeimage_7_link_19shapeimage_7_link_20shapeimage_7_link_21shapeimage_7_link_22shapeimage_7_link_23shapeimage_7_link_24shapeimage_7_link_25shapeimage_7_link_26shapeimage_7_link_27