Ova

The distant cold hum
of a refrigerated embryology.

Morning eggs arrayed
in their cartons,
domed power-plants
in laboratory-white.

I crack a shell open,
by cautious habit
check for any telltale spindrift of red,

a sign of incipient life
or the Sunnyside-up face of death.
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