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      October 17, 2013Brown Eyed GirlEdison Jennings

      Genetic analysis of a Denisovan fossil,
      dubbed “Brown Eyed Girl,” reveals
      kinship to modern humans.

      So close, we’re kin,
      according to the DNA
      unraveled from your genes:
      brown eyes, hair, and skin.
       
      You bequeathed two teeth
      and a mote of finger bone,
      coded scant remains
      that reveal your life was brief.
       
      My short-lived daughter, too,
      had brown eyes and hair.
      That makes us kin:
      she through me and me through you.

      from #39 - Spring 2013

      Edison Jennings (Virginia)

      “My interest in poetry began by happenstance in middle school. I began trying to write it in high school, but I wasn’t committed. Twenty-four years ago, while serving in the Navy, I got serious. When I separated from the Navy, I enrolled in the Warren Wilson Program for Writers, and I have been trying to write poetry ever since. I’m not sure why. Poetry is hard work, and I’m kind of lazy. However, I am also often confused. Maybe that’s why I continue to try and write the stuff because poetry might be a type of ‘broken drinking goblet,’ to borrow from Robert Frost, that I fill with water, which, when drunk, makes me ‘whole again beyond confusion.’”

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