image Alison Eastley
Sea Anemone


Lateral fission
(in which an identical
animal

sprouts out
of the anenome's side)
behind rock

solid loneliness
is one choice.
The other is sexual

reproduction
(in which anenome
release eggs and sperm,

producing free
swimming larvae)
and catastrophe

...as safety concerns
increased
on July 16,

1945, the first atomic
bomb
was detonated

at Alamogordo,
New Mexico near the
poplar trees

weeping
amber tears
under the microscope

the replication
and division
of a single parent cell.

There are talks
about global warming,
droughts,

energy
produced by nuclear
fission

heating liquids
to boiling
passions splitting

heaviness into light
fingered
capture some say

the sea
anenome's sex
life is kinky

instead of an explosion
of strange mutations
flowering into death.

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