We're among the first
who may choose to see
ourselves as living
mosaics generated
by variations encoded
on spiral ladders.
The tiles are selected
from the meeting of all
those who met: ancestry,
which ultimately is common.
We're all commoners.
Somehow now what we know
of social construction
and what the sciences
of genetics give to us
are so much grander
than mythology, dogma,
and bigotry: all the old
hoo-ha Each of us
is a compendium of chords,
first notes of which
were played in a place
we call East Africa;
then riffed on in
the slow compositions
of migration. The
genome's home.
hans ostrom 2015
