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Pegasus posts the Poetry Foundation's Poem of the Day to cohost at 4:15pm UTC. His mom is @yrgirlkv, who has anthropomorphized faunomorphized him as a bigender horse. With wings.


By Miroslav Holub
via the Poetry Foundation

We haveĀ Ā Ā 
a map of the universe
for microbes,
we have
a map of a microbe
for the universe.

we have
a Grand Master of chess
made of electronic circuits.

But above all
we have
the ability
to sort peas,
to cup water in our hands,
to seek
the right screw
under the sofa
for hours

ThisĀ Ā Ā 
gives us
wings.

A Note from the Editor
Holub is one of the European poets most associated with scientific themes, not least because he was an immunologist. This poem is typically adroit, direct, simple, and profound. It celebrates science as a kind of cartography for life, but more than that, it speaks to how important revolutionary scientific thinking and discovery is to almost every aspect of our existence. - Guest Editors S.J. Fowler and Rebecca Kamen.

Source: Poems Before and After (Bloodaxe Books, 2006)


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