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 FukushimaIf I were young,my ovaries prodding possibility,squirming newness still in my future,I might stop. Rain brings radsto grass, unknowing ruminantsmunch, and the rest is amplification.“Then buy skim, packed beforethe Japanese release – enoughfor a lifetime -- and mix your rationdaily,” says the health ‘umai.’But I’d so mourn lessenedpleasure: that thick milk-magicthat lets enzymes fermentand grow wildly-unctuous tastesundreamed...