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    612-822-4611

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Cheese After Fukushima: Poems for a Changing Planet

Cheese After Fukushima: Poems for a Changing Planet

Slatkin, Marcia

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General Poetry

ISBN10: 1622881540
ISBN13: 9781622881543
Publisher: Sfa Pr
Published: Nov 23 2017
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.23 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.99
Language: English
An activist conscious dialogue, Marcia Slatkin's Cheese After Fukushima laments an impending future occupied by melted ice caps, fishless oceans, persistence of global obesity, the absence of CO2, and a wheezing Earth suffocated under city sidewalks. These wildly inventive poems are backed with a beautiful linguistic language which brings an element of beauty to the otherwise stark descriptions of our own reality.


Cheese after Fukushima

If I were young,
my ovaries prodding possibility,
squirming newness still in my future,
I might stop. Rain brings rads
to grass, unknowing ruminants
munch, and the rest is amplification.
Then buy skim, packed before
the Japanese release - enough
for a lifetime -- and mix your ration
daily, says the health 'umai.'
But I'd so mourn lessened
pleasure: that thick milk-magic
that lets enzymes ferment
and grow wildly-unctuous tastes
undreamed...

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