These poems were mostly written in Nice, in the summer of 2001, which accounts for the logo used in this section, the city's official shield.
The first eight poems here were directly inspired by the manifold issues connected with human genetic engineering, a topic that touches everything about being a person. They were printed, in four broadsheets, for distribution at the Beyond Cloning conference at Boston University, in September, 2001.
On Reading Whitman's Redwood Song
The next eleven were also written this summer ...
... while the rest were started within the last four years,
and edited (or at least considered) this summer
Thoughts on Thursday after the Council Meeting
on Tuesday, February 23th, 1999
