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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...

Cheese after Fukushima: Poems for a Changing

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      Publisher Stephen F. Austin State University Press
      Published 31 December 2023
      ISBN-13 9781622881543
      978-1622881543
      ISBN-10 1622881540

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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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