Y by Leslie Adrienne Miller
Perhaps it’s a thread that needs to be pulled, Whole word in French and Spanish, loaning its fragile branch to a boy What happens to unrepaired sequences blown umbrella, arrow reversed in wind, of a trillion sperm, a single Y … might fold over, and then accidentally delete everything If the face is a christening in flesh, raising the tent of bones in which that a knowledge of God cannot undo.
a single stitch caught in the crux.
vertical axis of Cartesian three
in theory. On y va. Let’s go There.
in subsequent generations? Semivowel,
frizzy blot of genetic code directing the symphony
line up these similar patches of genetic sequence,
that lies in between. Je est un autre.
the boy of him is its opposite,
he will harbor all the starry anomalies
