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The Web Poetry Corner - Frank Valentyn - ACTIONS OF GRADED CUTANEOUS AND MUSCULAR AFFERENT VOLLEYS ON BRAIN STEM UNITS IN THE DECEREBRATE CEREBELLECTOMISED CAT.

ACTIONS OF GRADED CUTANEOUS AND MUSCULAR AFFERENT VOLLEYS ON BRAIN STEM UNITS IN THE DECEREBRATE CEREBELLECTOMISED CAT.

by

Frank Valentyn

We discovered to regret
shortcoming in cerebrated tenet
despite momentum of our training
entrenchment of academe's ambition
shriven in exact tradition
gaining analytical excellence
in depetallising and depistillation
defoliating and de-stemming of the flower
lay not the secret power of the experience
of its dawn-dewed scent

We loved, loved not, loved
lent our expertise and dedication
and what it was we loved not, loved
to excess, the ontological consideration
of sleep in an empty skull
and there we met conflagration
of our desolately voided vision
with an imagined fullness
requiring perhaps further, calmly chalked decision
succinct overnight memo specifying the co-ordinates
one more precise incision might yet reveal
a kitten's fluffed suckling dream
kneading our surgical reality
but in strapped paws
metallic crown of electrodes
and unnecessary tail's tinyness
no longer played elusive kittenness

Parameters of the experience
escaped raw daily hammering
and having carried Mount Fujiyama away
bucket by bucket with great discipline
they recorded not encountering
its height or sacredness
and in the street below the lab
a stray tabby pads away
leaving no imprint of its passing
carried further into mystery
its tail proud question mark

Comment on the research on cats and kittens performed at the University of Lyon, France by Pompeiano, O., And Swett, J. E., with the aim of further discovering and analysing neurophysiological mechanisms of sleep and dreaming. These animals have selected cerebral structures surgically removed, undergo mechanical and electrical stimulation and are monitored by cranial microprobe-connected electronic equipment. I directly took the title of their research article as the title of the poem.

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