| Soo: | Kun you feel de spark in dis image & poem? | |
| Philyra: | Yeah. Diatoms are miniature fusion reactors. When you think about what they do – take the energy of the sun and produce life – it's amazing. | |
| Soo: | Kun you almost imagine whatto it feelsu like to be a diatom? | |
| Philyra: | Perhaps. It's a whole different reality, isn't it? | |
| Elijah: | Yep. Isn't our best hope for the future creative imagination? |
What would it feel like
to be a fraction of a hair in length
& float through an ocean of space?
What would it be like
to be wrapped in silicone
as geometry incarnate?
How would it feel
to have hundreds of microfibrils
instead of arms or legs?
No death - just division
No sex - just replication without end
How would existence seem to a diatom
or the floating microscopic diamonds
that suck up solar energy
while dreaming of silicates?
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