Cheese After Fukushima: Poems for a Changing Planet (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781622881543)

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...

Author: Marcia Slatkin
ISBN-10: 1622881540
ISBN-13: 9781622881543
Publisher: Stephen F. Austin University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/23/2017
Pages: 80
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.00w x 0.23d