Demarcate

porphyrin rings, nitrogen base, carbon chain, hydrogen link....

just what where and why did we ever think

the ladder should extend to climb to the top

when the imbalance arose at the first stop.

hydrogen began the rungs on the ladder

everything to stand or fall and nothing else matters

so if you feel a little hitch in your get-a-long

it is not the cell, the molecule, but the atom that is wrong.

waters, bases, alcohol, esters, enzymes, amino acids and protein

come as one foot is put in front of the other

cursors, precursors, catalysts that rhyme

fermentation and deliverance in time.

iron bases cling with electric bonds

hemoglobin bleeds into the cytoplasmic pond

magnetic repulsion clinched and bound

in ferric domains that split the circle round

lines to breach convex and concave curves

THESE ENDS to plug beginnings of life's little miracles.

(water hold the memory and melody)

- Blanche McLanahan