Unzipping Their DNA

This month's poem has a certain innate chemistry to it.

For this month’s poem I’ve taken inspiration from the homonymic expansion of deoxyribonucleic acid.

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For display purposes only. A graphical depiction of two oddly conjoined DNA strands, demonstrating no particular biological feature or mechanism.

Unzipping Their DNA

She’s doxy, ribald, new clay and plastic.
He's a foxy rider, declared a classic.
Unzipping as consensual pleasure,
together their genes now wind, 
in unwitting combination of the new.

Mutations are necessary
a necessary diversity,
subject to adversity.
No chemicals berating
their helical bloodlines.

Duplicating life’s rhythms,
aeons without rhyme or design,
noted absence signals new life. 
A point in space on the landscape
of infinite choice.

Natural correction of
chromosomal error
is subsumed socially,
a self-silenced possibility
of what might be.

Other unborn offerings,
marked without celebration, 
declared a lifestyle aberration.
Permitted consent of rejection
a modern necessity.

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