A Conversation with Marina Benjamin, Author of Insomnia
I became an invader myself / a pathogen with survival traits
I became an invader myself / a pathogen with survival traits
an invasive species of love which said
if this is how you live your life
perhaps you should live it elsewhere
& so I did
I lived it elsewhere
in a waterproof shell
said goodbye to the Asian carp
the kudzu vines
the bark beetles stripping the coast
of music
a pathogen with survival traits
delivering small mammals
to the owners of piranhas
I sank to the bottom of Lake Malawi
& rose finned & wealthy
became a tank became a bowl