A double helix, our belief <br />and blood, reanimates the past <br />while we are wrecked upon the reef <br />on which our memories are cast. <br /> <br /> <br />Tony Earley writes in 'The Quare Gene: What will happen to the Secret Language of the Appalachians? ' (New Yorker, September 21,1998) : <br /> <br />If language is the mechanism through which we inherit history and culture, then each individual word functions as a type of gene, bearing with it a small piece of the specific information that makes us who we are, and tells us where we have been...Words and blood are the double helix that connect us to our past. <br /> <br />9/21/98<br /><br />gershon hepner<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/double-helix/
