This nanopoem was co-created by Amy Sara Carroll and Ricardo Dominguez of *particle group,* along with Maribel Montero (a nanolithography specialist). It was produced with a Raith50 E-beam Writer on silicon coupons at nano3 (UCSD). The writing field of the coupons was between 0.5 um (nanometers) to 5.0 um (for the sake of comparison, recall that a white blood cell is 7,000 nanometers in width). Two trajectories were at play in developing these nanolithographs — the work focuses on the year 2012, the year that the Mayan Calendar ended/shifted. Representations of that time-change oscillated between the apocalyptic and the utopic, paralleling representations of “nanocausts and nanotopias” tracked by the artists in their work. The year 2012 also marked the inauguration of the Tijuana Institute of Nanotechology (TIN), a speculative space for nano-scale research and art production where these signs first were “taken for wonders.”