Mystery in the Chrysalis

How does the caterpillar change,
and all its innards rearrange?
Emerging from its egg with lumps,
inactive miniscule disc-bumps
to one day form leg-joints and wings,
compound eyes, and nerves, and things
to make them work:

when stilled inside a chrysalis
some enzymes form nutritious gloop
digesting innards into soup
to feed the growth and activation
of these disc-buds – transformation
while other actions in suspense —
but
how is it done? What causes this
cascading complicated sequence?

Research has found the DNA
is far more complex, than was thought,
so many ways are known today
of reading off the information –
backwards, forwards, dicing, slicing,
recombining, cutting, pasting,
starting here, then starting there,
switching on and off as needed,
all precisely timed, directed
– multiple instructions coded
in one section, guiding, using
nano-molecule machines,
organized and synchronized –

podgy caterpillar re-formed
incredibly transformed.

The more we know,
the more we find we do not know
and cannot ever fully know,
and comprehend –
increasing knowledge magnifies
our view of wonder and surprise.

Taking up the first verse of last week's https://www.abctales.com/story/rhiannonw/%E2%80%A6

[IP: Transformation]