R. M. Haines was educated at Kenyon College and the University of California–Irvine. He has received a Glenn Schaeffer Fellowship for his work and is currently a doctoral fellow at the University of North Texas. His poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from Salamander, Spoon River Poetry Review, Faultline, and Poets.org.
Fall 2016: The Poetics of Science
Medusae (II)
Along the lip of its body’s bell a fringe of calcium crystals orients the jellyfish to gravity. Held in pockets, the crystals graze nearby hairs whose motion neurons translate into […]