Marfa Muravieva, St. Petersburg, Russia. 1864

Fiametta

Some of my genes

Have not changed at all
In five hundred million years.
Not Grandma’s, either.

Your genes too. Same ones
As Republicans — as crows —
At least half of them.

Change is a mistake.
Celebrate diversity.
Evolutionary

The revolution is.
Jesus says, “There is no try.”
We are all the same.

Papa is a fish
And I have not changed at all
Salamander dreams.