Transcontinental bus trip while reading evolution book
by Richard Modiano
West of Denver
fossil rodents appear suddenly
fog & snow, superhighway
clods of dirt
reading Hitching on Evolution
the Centarl Electric Supply Co.
Watson & Crick, 1953
crystalline spirals of DNA
coded info only out to protein
molecular “how” of heredity
Schnooky’s Cookies
wire fence
romantic in water vapor
Baby cries in seat ahead
Precambrium jump from bacteria
calnpi..fJ.g phone next right
genetic drift in fruit flies
black on yellow diamond bicycle
lovers fight
about their children
simultaneous unrelated advantageous mutations
Clear Creek Canyon
Marcel Scbutzenberger scientist
“no leaps in nature”
Idaho Springs
Self serve—no smoking
Sun races west, into blue sky
130 million light-sensitive rods and cones
exit—Silver Plume
system of coordinated variables
firewood for sale
Continental Divide
push here for exit