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It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there. --- William Carlos Williams

Tuesday, January 24

Speak Cells


With DNA Testing, Suddenly They Are Family
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/24/us/with-dna-testing-adoptees-find-a-way-to-connect-with-family.html?pagewanted=2

Swab of cheek
Vials in mail
Tissues sailing across states,
Revealing misplaced identity

Speak, cells
Disclose locked file cabinets
Pry open slammed doors
Sing  the names of relatives
With my blood bright in their veins
Tell me who I am
Posted by Stephanie Hope Arnold at 04:47
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