George Church has a beard like God’s.
Each whisker contains helices of DNA
that curve like mammoth tusks.
Church and his team work to resurrect
the woolly mammoth, or rather, to create
an approximation of it—an elephant cousin
adapted to the Arctic.
The morning of Jesus’ resurrection, the women
named Mary came to his sepulcher, the angel
of the Lord descended with an earthquake,
and soldiers fainted from fear. He is risen,
the angel said, as the empty tomb echoed.
Jesus walked nearby in the sun.
When his disciples saw him,
They worshiped him:
