As vertebrates, the architecture of our bodies (which combines bones bearing loads in compression and muscles bearing then in tension) makes us part of the phylum "chordata". The term "phylum" refers to a branch in the evolutionary tree (the first bifurcation after animal and plant "kingdoms") but it also carries the idea of a shared body-plan, a kind of "abstract vertebrate" which, if folded and curled in particular sequences during embryogenesis, yields an elephant, twisted and stretched in another sequence yields a giraffe, and in yet other sequences of intensive operations yields snakes, eagles, sharks and humans.
Manuel De Landa, "Deleuze and the Use of the Genetic Algorithm in Architecture." in: Between Bladerunner and Mickey Mouse: New Architecture in Los Angeles. April 2001.
we are hibernating
our dualisms
our lingual dyads
in that ruse of sure
in cerebral vortex
splitting the triad
here anatomy is an alias
a haruspex within
the anonymous radius
this is a stellar
migration
to a cosmic cipher
the rhetoric nethered
to a neurotic nucleus
be it i, in heart
and hull : comatose
on a pelvic diagonal
on an orphic ego,
dogleg & erose
be it you : in nihil est
a tawny talon reaching
inside the blacklash
of a wasp's nest
let me study
your guerrilla ontology
and my post mortem of
that should be a dissertation
on the castration of an apology
dear darling, are you my
ghost or am i your guest?
this is how we sink in love
i as the failed cyborg
you as my turing's test
