I like the interwoven ideas of letters/information/words/rhythm/poetry. I picture in my mind a guy who is neither left nor right brain dominant here, the artistic-scientific type, in the middle of a couple of simultaneous projects. Are the clone of the title, the owner of the protein sequence being elaborated, and the young woman of the penultimate line one and the same? I lean toward prose, so I'm wondering if you could shed a little light here on what you were thinking. Aha! Light goes on. The silent E. And paragraph/stanza one refers to the protein sequence, while number three refers to the poem, with parallel ideas. The structure is making a little more sense, now.