Downstream of the last nucleotide is a site
where we may rest. There, there is no restriction
on what we may do or say and no one will cut
us to size, sifting afterward through the fragments,
scanning the length of us to bind
Dogma.

The road ends. Beyond the last bricks in a sequence
past which we may not walk, fish swim upstream
dogs bark in the dark, crickets rub their legs in code
at night stars and children's eyes activate
shifting, fragile places in the human
Genome.