The missing link is found
in you. Generations
of scientists shredding
their brains to ribbons
that twist
and turn
into the wiring of our
neurology.
The simple strand
that piece-by-piece
join humanity.
A basic
attachment
forming her heavy upper brow,
the way his lips dip
under into a crescent,
his lazy eye wandering to
the mole on her right cheek.
These rungs,
like stratums,
lead to insensible stacks
that make a synecdoche
of heredity.