Natural Selection
written by: Lenore Weiss
@lenka
We live in a bafflement
of words like smoke
from a fire making eyes tear
and throats scratchy
only we don’t realize
we are being talked to death
by dyslexic vapors
fucking with our hearing
playing everything backward
so we think violence, killing, and rape
could be kind of normal
and just like that
we keep evolving
into another life form.
Lenore’s poetry collections form a trilogy about love, loss, and being mortal: Cutting Down the Last Tree on Easter Island (West End Press, 2012); Two Places (Kelsay Books, 2014), and The Golem (Hakodesh Word Press, 2017). Her most recent poetry chapbook is From Malls to Museums (Ethelzine, 2020). Alexandria Quarterly Press published her prize-winning flash fiction chapbook, Holding on to the Fringes of Love. She is a reader for the Mud Season Review and lives in Oakland, California with Zebra the Brave and Granola the Shy. Lenore serves as the Associate Creative Nonfiction (CNF) Editor for the Mud Season Review. Her environmental novel Pulp into Paper is forthcoming from Atmosphere Press.
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