ANTI-MATTER PROGRAM

These photographs showed the nucleus to be flexing its cylindrical body
the gray of the silt, a shrimping and petroleum city
fine-seeded crops to a flume regenerate
the two valves together, and a single muscle closes
thickly over the prepared, raised soil;
captive killers have been trained through a four-inch vertical pipe
workers put their arms--and even their heads--into the whales'
tooth-filled mouths, pull the animals around by the blowholes,
an ocher star stretch and strain the water-filled feet
the star travels out through the mouth, the tube
coal-black, a rare potato-shaped object marked by hills and
oil-spotted beaches impregnated towelettes--
two bright jets of gas and dust, electronic international banking,
and the transfer of huge reports,
flew in toward the comet's sucker center and took pictures.