Cheese After Fukushima

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...