XII. La Zététique

XII. La Zététique

Scales of a mirror conceal the floodwaters of a giant trousseau—
Confirmed, doubly secret, oscillations, with a satellite’s false-color of Okavango
Delta, for which we need lion forceps, before springtails in the taxidermied nose
All these inflect the anachronism of genes—Go’s contiguity of stones; of magnesium,
La glycine as hydrolyzed protein, the vine, and salon of the Swiss watchmaker—
As twelve such pairs of cranial nerves, approaching year VII, Fasti IV of April’s blast

Cells, a priest reads the entrails for wheat rust, in a former theater of war—BLAST,
Basic Local Alignment Search Tool, parses anthills of chlorophyll and heme; for the Trousseau
Grape’s white mutation—Twin loves of given and received pleasure, the watchmaker’s
Converted pendulum swings into cycles on a gear train—For periodic lubrication, the Okavango
Percolated by the Sahara’s pitched circles of grains—Seen through a single lens loupe; a nose,
Pioneering ants steering the plume downwind—Broad raindrops of reactive magnesium

Alkaline earth; or iron, an endmember of a dying star, and we are these clod harvesters of magnesium—

Jacques Brel’s biplane crossing the 12 Marquesas, and electron capture of the blasted

Air of the tropopause, where nuclei brood—Supervielle’s Nocturne en plein jour (1938), the nose
Cone, birds are dyed red—12 Misunderstandings of Kin Selection (1979), the overladen trousseau

By which the gene cares for copies of itself as Ovid nourished errors of imperial watchmaker
Of the adopted Augustan lineage, Germanicus, whose Sirius, the Dog Star was redder than Mars—Okavango

Termite islands, bestrewn knob thorn and mangosteen of Kalahari sandbars—The substituted gene for X; Okavango
Trypanosomes of sleeping sickness, whose paired, circular DNA of kinetoplasts contain magnesium
Counter ion of the hosts’s ATP and nucleic acids—Tacitus poses as a watchmaker;
The ethnographic network of Germania (98 C.E.), for the lost eagles among nailed skulls of Teutoberg Forest six years recovered (14 C.E.)—Blasted
Kin spaded under such that the augurate heaved the sod—Rhine tribes, omitting their facial angle, nose

To ear, were warriors resistant to exogamy—Himmler read on a train (1924) as an aide to a Landshut apothecary—Darwin’s twelve-league crossing of Chiloé (1835), the trousseau

Of his geological diary catches the alluvium of the Severn, until the Concepción earthquake crashes the trousseau
Of its oldest inhabitant, uplifting the mussel beds—Together, how they set about reclaiming what was left, as the Okavango
Householders their fungus stores—Recipients of the Boston mail as far as Savannah, The Liberator (1835), whose nose
Bloodied altruism gathers corpses beyond the wisteria curtains of wraparound porches—Magnesium
Fire starter, for a book of wet matches—There, the mineral ion of pulses found in a thin oxide of the watchmaker’s
Armor of an alienating identity (1966)—Coenzyme prosthetic, or the blue light on the threshing floor, where an oak blasted

From his viscera, from his organic insufficiency—Grignard reagent’s work-up, where an un-dedicated circuit blasted

Formation of a hydrocarbon radical; simply, R-Mg-X—Added across a double bond, the trappings of the Malle W. Trousseau—
Persistently, the blacksmith’s apron and box-handled Corsican knife equivalents of the watchmaker’s
Random letters and spaces gradually altered each generation as the serpentine Okavango  

Deposits its substrates downstream; the scratched stock were healed from Epsom’s well—Thoth, whose crescent nose
Inscribes the superadded days of the rise of Sirius, Nile inundation, where fertile termites blister water like shavings of alloyed magnesium—

The Icarian of Fasti IV; the only reason for it is because of the name—Magnesium blasting
Photopigments, glycine binding dismembered Osiris, of the Sky and Earth’s coupling, and the watchmaker of the Okavango delta,

Ngami Lacuna, a hydrocarbon lake of Saturn’s largest moon—Babel’s Fallen scaffolding cracked the builder’s heads, where an ibis fishes out a serpent; with trousseau of implements for its nose, for the scaled whole, after the Tswana poet, Seboni, a continent of question marks ? (1978)