Deities and the human brain
By: Valyntina Grenier.
forgotten burgers/ lost theatre tickets our least fortunes
last laugh to dis to leap a human genus/ genius
wittingly advancing life too devoted to semper fie
population never never grant it had Diana ocean
or pursuit in a hydroponic closet exactly heaven broke free
halcyon still like some kind of broccoli party
pushing scientists to garden wildness Consciousness
doesn’t take the desire between give-in-and-take-out
the dialectical intoxicating survival of plants Plants
can alter consciousness resting our brain in a sense
like us leaning our head against the doorway of our love
Every plucked petal cast for the plants’ we might
reinvent drives Whatever word-world desire has dance/
revolutionary actors/ all us bees pollinating equality
leaning like us between our brain and deities
Valyntina is a multi-genre eco artist living with her wife in Tucson, AZ. She works with paint, ink, Neon, encaustic medium, recycled or repurposed materials and words. She is the author of three poetry chapbooks, the tête-bêche, Fever Dream/ Take Heart (Cathexis Northwest Press 2020) and In Our Now (Finishing Line Press 2022). You’ll find her work in, Beyond Queer Words, Genre: Urban Arts, Impermanent Earth, The Journal, Lana Turner, The Night Heron Barks, Querencia, Ran Off with the Star Bassoon, Sunspot, and The Wardrobe. Find her at valyntinagrenier.com or Insta @ valyntinagrenier.