Not Nothing Poem by Kimiko Hahn

Not Nothing

Rating: 4.5


A map on tissue. A mass of wire. Electricity of the highest order.
Somewhere in this live tangle, scientists discovered—

like shipmates on the suddenly-round earth—
a new catalog of synaptic proteins

presenting how memory is laid down:
At the side of the transmitting neuron

an electrical signal arrives and releases chemical packets.

What I had imagined as "nothing" are a bunch of conversing
squirts
remaking flat into intimate.

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Kimiko Hahn

Kimiko Hahn

New York City / United States
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