ee coli
with a nod to E.E. Cummings (or ee cummings, if you must)
i carry you with me (i carry you
inside) i am never without you (anywhere
i go you go, my symbiote; and whatever feeds
you is my doing)
i fear
that here is the deepest secret a body knows
being more of you than cells i own, my microbiome
home to the root of the root
of a tree called life; which grows
I carry your DNA (i carry it in my gut)
and up my nose
by David Barber
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David Barber lives in Norfolk, England, a county considered to be a generation behind the times. This is a good thing. His ambition is to write