Our Bodies are Mostly Water
“All forms of pollution eventually make their way to water.”
—a scientist
Today
it was announced as
the first day of a month without plastic
Today
your book came
in a white plastic bubble wrap envelope
I don't really mind bent corners
I put
the plastic bag
in the trash
It will go to a landfill
Polymer polymer polymer
many seas many seas many seas
And I’ve grown tired of punctuation
littering the page
I don’t think of leaves
littering trees
Or birds
littering the sky
Or stars
littering the night
17 types of plastic in arctic ice
4 main types of plastics in our blood
blood scientists aren't as exact
as glaciologists
but what’s in water
is in blood
We are so porous
In the future nanobots
will swim in our blood
collecting plastic
out of this plastic
they will make
their own
special planet
floating above us
What could go wrong?
The Everyday Day
Something outside enters
a dove arrives and sits
atop a tree of raucous starlings
the orange pickers laugh
in the distance straw hats
and white t-shirts
on the way to the farm
we hit a wild pig
and today a single cloud
with a long snout
and four little legs
hangs in the sky above me
Melanie DuBose got her BA in theatre from UCSC ages ago, and her MFA in Film from UCLA. Her family all live in Capitola and Watsonville, but she ran away from home and teaches teenagers filmmaking in East Los Angeles. Her poetry has been published in Drunk Monkey, Tiny Seed, One Sentence Poems, and other journals.
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