Ever since Mrs Entwisle’s English at Otago Girls’ High, RAE VARCOE has been delighted, entertained and sustained by reading poetry. Latterly she has been writing. She has acquired an MA in Creative Writing from Victoria University and has had poems published in Sport, Takahe, Poetry NZ and in medical journals in the US. She is a physician who specialises in the management of malignant blood disorders.

Varcoe comments: ‘The poem attempts to combine the languages of basic human science and basic human experience. Exons and introns allow the DNA code to be read. The exons are the coding sequence and introns are the silent splicers.’

 

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