V. Le Démonstrateur

V. Le Démonstrateur

After a cursory search of Stencil’s alpha index—The 1963 debut of V.,
Where you are a primordial inclusion—A furanose ring, five-carbon ribose,

Detached from what originally surrounded it—Oxygen on a fretted diamond’s

Apex—RNA’s single-strand enduring the crossing of that wilderness of Hadean

Eon when there were two folded protein domains—Up to our episode of atomic

Coordinates pinning large and small ribosomal subunits, where the factors bind

Gene and catalyst in a headless contest until the loosed beast of venery binds

Black Diamond Bay and Karl Baedeker’s Egypt—We ascertain from Pynchon’s V.

Both the lava shield and the acid bath as sites for primordial RNA—Atomic

CG modeling yields to a single-stranded nucleic acid with four-carbon threose—Ribose

Drops in a later assembled hairpin looming over the quiet sweep of Black Diamond

Bay—There, a violinist chucks her violin for a mute symphony in a Hadean

World 40 years later; with Lolita’s duplicity, Heyst as a Soviet tyrant—Hadean

Abduction occurs in this sequence—RNA hydrogen-bonds itself; its template strand binds

AUG, awaiting the terminal mismatches of a triad, and object of every action; unlike diamonds,

Which scatter infinitely through its networks—Knowing your signal five-by-five, V.

Your uncontrollable elements, where incunabula of your calcium reserve extends atomic

Predictions—At the five prime untranslated region (5' UTR), small nuclear ribonucleoproteins

Splice all the implied epithets of your genes’ expression—Except for lariats, a ribosomal

Complex decrypts the folded strands of consciousness—Proteins charge this Hadean

Tight-rope walk—A destined name heard over indolent rope-skipping, where desired atomic
Constellations are, rather, immovable knots—Aminoacyl tRNA synthetase binds

Translating ribosomes; each anticodon specifies which protein—On that beam, a diamond’s

Fire catches its complement—With bewildering ease, the optics in a portraitist’s cramped room, V.—

Assumed into the fabric of any of a thousand Great Paintings—Nothing more than V.'s
Comb—Optical proof she existed in a novel, or it fell from a lacemaker’s hair—Ribonucleic

Acid’s single floss gathers premises, folds into tertiary structure, and the veins of diamond

In volcanic pipes—Unless we accept receding deeper into pluton, invisible, there is a Hades

Figure taxiing commodities of the dead, who flints our consciousness into atomic

Energy leaps—Functional protein is recovered; its ends charged at biological pH—Ribose

Aptly stacks the DNA double helix with a pucker, and the 2'-OH of the ribose
Sugar mediates RNA binding to the adenine-thymine minor groove—Chapter V.

Calypso frees Odysseus, bereft her single, fallen-off transcript—Reversing the atom,
Stencil pursues V., or entertain the possibility of letting one’s thoughts go empty—Ribonucleic
Acid’s distinctive feature is the compulsion to replicate; it is degraded easily, beyond Hadean
Sulfur pits, or nuclear pores—Greater and less than we can imagine, V., is Black Diamond

Bay’s capacity—For a Soviet ambassador, a desperate Greek—Ribonucleic acids are a diamond
Precious, biological machine that two, original RNA molecules reprise as spurs of other atoms—

Exoteric and penetrating as you, V., where this Hadean heat of diverse life forms—A singular creation.