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Dendrites stretching through void,
dark axons reaching out from soma to soma.

Each intersection a galaxy,
bright neurons in a network of space.

The music of radiation:
the acetylcholine passing from cell to cell.

The lugubriously expanding universe:
a majestic monstrous fetus gestating.

When the universe awakes and synapses fire,
will we awaken, too?

Or will we continue, atoms of organelles of a neuron,
unaware of the body?

This magnificent leviathan, oblivious to the multitudes it contains:
the glory of its cells.



L. W. Salinas is a former mad scientist who traded her pipette for a pen and a microphone. When she’s not writing, she podcasts, voice acts, and narrates audiobooks. She can be found at lawofalltrades.wordpress.com.
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