INTERDEPENDENCE: Meggie Royer, “The Life Cycle of a Fruit Fly” (6/6)
The life cycle of drosophila melanogaster, / also known as the common fruit fly, / consists of copulation, which lasts 15-20 minutes, then the…
Writings for Winter
INTERDEPENDENCE: Meggie Royer, “Not So Much Falling in Love as Leaping into It” (5/6)
In January my older brother Paul came out without even saying a single word; / I found him wrapped around the body of another…
INTERDEPENDENCE: Meggie Royer, “All Human Beings Spend 1/3 of Their Lives Asleep” (4/6)
In physics class last year our professor talked about how dark energy / is still a transient concept, something that scientists…
INTERDEPENDENCE: Meggie Royer, “Poem for the Day I Cut My Hair in Memory of You Leaving” (3/6)
Because you moved to Canada and left me here with the cat / and a few hundred bags…
INTERDEPENDENCE: Meggie Royer, “The Summer I Shrank and You Expanded” (2/6)
The year we dissected a squid and ate its tentacles piece / by piece down at the pier next to your house was the year…
INTERDEPENDENCE: Meggie Royer, “For Twenty-Year-Olds Who Have Never Been Loved” (1/6)
In the spirit of July’s Interdependence theme, this week’s Featured Creative is the inspiringly prolific poet, Meggie Royer.