On Their Own

They stick to DNA and blink on their own.

An ordinary glass blurs under two hundred. With these, twenty in a living cell.

Fairy lights is a late mouth. The leftover is on, then off, already doing that before anyone said coordinated.

On cells killed and chemically locked a single dye to about three. The helix is about two.

The lock is not leftover looking in a living cell. It is a hold so the instrument can finish. Three sat still.

I will not write a glow. I will not write one gene. They coat all the DNA.

The blinks were already there.