we sync the synth into our sensorium
and activate nine nonillion nanomachines
to engineer a world in which
the sky turns to an ultrablue maelstrom
spiderlaced by hot pink lightning
cybernetic silkworms weave wires
jellyfish float on the liquid air
nanites slither along neurites
like glistening robotic silverfish
and our flesh buzzes with sentience
as seething intelligence infiltrates
the musculature and mind
our embryogenesis is complete
the ecologies have gone electric
chrysalises bud like bubbles
and emit silicon butterflies
Logan Thrasher Collins is an author, futurist, neuroscientist, and synthetic biologist. He is also a student at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His poetry and short fiction have been published in Andromeda Spaceways Magazine, Abyss & Apex, Aphelion, and 365tomorrows. His synthetic biology research has been published in ACS Biochemistry. Logan’s poem “Neuraweb” was nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Rhysling Award.
