In hollowed holes of
Knotted cells,
Tensile echoes
Bubble beneath the surface –
Frothing with potential
As they wait to break
Free from the confines
Of their cellular walls.
Synthetic solutions:
Nurtured in nature.
Tangled webs of
Dew-lined geometries
Glimmer gently,
Their native silks
Bearing broken bodies
That belay their
Precious cargo betwixt
Fragile manacles
Of suppurating steel.
Synthetic solutions:
Nurtured in nature.
In empty clean rooms
Dexterous fingers replicate
Acidic glands,
Weaving matrices of artificial silk
Through interlocking fibrils;
Small and slender fibres
That stitch together proteins
To form structural assemblies
That blend into the landscape
From which they were taken.
Synthetic solutions:
Nurtured in nature.
An image of a cellulose nanofibril, taken by a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM); 200 nm = 200 nanometres, roughly one-thousandth the width of a human hair
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