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Myogenesis and the rest unsettled

John Liles

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Cushions become cuspid
valves. What comforts later
allows. Endothelial cell-lineage,

the heart is its own
hesitation.

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Some muscles aren’t absolute. You reach into
a reflex and allow
reversal.

Calories uncounted,
turns out progress
is stalling

what you’ve swallowed.

Chase after your
reflection and feel
less.

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What once was is still
reachable, an outline
you’ve soured over.

Indelible and spilled, you
abrade the paper,
peel another top-pulp.

But it’s still stained.
Your next start
stung deeper.

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Translocating
in lower somite-stages
establishes skeletal muscle
starts and skin rises.

Precursors with end-points
already determined—clock
and notch toward appropriate
stitching.