Post by thepoetslizard on Oct 10, 2008 15:57:30 GMT 2
Genevieve Mae Aquino (G. Mae Aquino) is scientist by profession, with a clutch of diplomas in molecular biology and genetics. She was a fellow for Poetry in English at both the Iligan National Writers' Workshop and the IYAS Creative Writing Workshop. Her lifetime dream is to produce a body of work that combines her two great loves: science and poetry. She was born in Quezon City, raised in Davao City, and currently serves as a bioinformatics specialist for an international research consortium.
Pelvic
(for Krish)
After hours spent slouched
over Gray's Anatomy
I remain mesmerized
by the U-shaped structure
that is the pelvic girdle.
For if I could choose
to be any part
of your beautiful body,
I wish to be
what wraps itself
around you
inside you
in an everlasting embrace.
I want to be ilium:
the most superior
creator of the curve of your hip
strong
muscled
seductive
I want to be ischium:
the most posterior
bone on which you sit
humble
inconspicuous
necessary
I want to be pubis:
the central front bridge
stuff of Oedipal dreams
flexible
sensual
maternal
I wish to be all three:
you-shaped
you-centric
in intimate association
with your most intimate processes
I wish to be innominate:
beginning and ending
within you
I would love to be pelvic.
*
"Roadkill"
After being run-
over a zillion times,
one soul becomes paper-
thin as a sliver
of onion skin
off a microtome.
*
"Magnified"
O magnify the LORD with me,
and let us exalt his name together.
-- Psalm 34:3
For I was taught to pray
head-bent, I bow to the majesty
of Creation: the translucent jewel tones
of a cosmos contained by a water droplet,
a finite galaxy of burning star-
like cells filled with fluorescent fire.
Samples magnified a hundred-
thousand-fold, I witness Omni-
science unveiled with each miracle
cure and empirical truth.
Their unequivocal existence remains
invisible the unbelieving naked eye.
