straight, forward
it’s
funny
how
we prioritize
the
cats of Tashirojima are
feral, hungry
outnumber
the humans by eyes,
wanting
paw watches ferry
times
the
frequency of a domestic cat’s purr
matches the
frequency
muscles
and bones self-repair
clowders
convene for
Neko-jinja
death by
buried under
safe in
rock
tribute
human err of hope
it’s
funny
how
we prioritize
the
silkworms spin their silk
the mice eat the silk
worms
the cats eat the
mice
no
dogs allowed
it’s
funny
how
we prioritize
The
International Court of Justice Japan
can no longer kill whales
in
the name of science in
Antarctica
i
once slept in the belly of a sleeping whale
i
didn’t want to wake
Japan
was to determine commercial
whaling of some species
without
danger of
extinction
when
he moved, i moved
when
he woke, i was better
he
fell back asleep
it’s
funny
how
we prioritize
Marilyn Irwin’s work has been
published by above/ground
press, Arc
Poetry Magazine (where she is a Contributing Editor), Bywords, In/Words,
and New American
Writing, among
others.
A graduate of Algonquin College’s
Creative Writing program and winner of
Arc’s 2013 Diana Brebner Prize, she has three chapbooks: for when you pick daisies (2010), flicker (2012), and little nothings (2012). for when you pick daisies was
reprinted in full in the collection Ground
rules: the best of the second decade of above/ground press 2003-2013.
She is currently shaping her first
full-length collection.
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