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‘First Contact’ by Hugh Dunkerley

August 17, 2012June 6, 2016 ~ And Other Poems ~ Leave a comment

First Contact I Through a haze of ultrasound we make you out, little amphibian curled in your amniotic pool. You’re still a long way off, still trying to conjure limbs, kidneys, a central nervous system, still wrestling with your DNA, the fishtail that loops you back into the Devonian. On the monitor the nurse picks … Continue reading ‘First Contact’ by Hugh Dunkerley

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