Saturday, April 22, 2017

Poem LXX: Translations

there is hardly a version that you could call
the original of a text
any more than a martyr's bones are still possessed
of the saint's sovereign ecstasy

yet these are both translated

another major form occurs
when genes are expressed
first the transcription,
the transfer of information, preexisting, to a template,
then its translation
into protein molecule

scientists have shown that this is happening all the time
in the brains of rats and monkeys

so that's how everything
comes into being: all nature does
is transcribe, transfer
 translate

example:
LOGOS = saying, speaking, speech, mode of speaking
eloquence, discourse
conversation, talk
word, expression
assertion
principle, maxim
proverb
promise
order, command
proposal
condition, agreement
stipulation, decision
pretext
fable, news, story, report, legend
prose-writing, history, book, essay, oration
affair, incident
thought, reason, reckoning, computation, reflection, deliberation, account, consideration, opinion
cause, end
argument, demonstration
meaning, value
proportion
Christ








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