The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: In Our Now by Valyntina Grenier

Wardrobe Best Dressed 
This selection, chosen by guest editor Samantha Duncan, is from In Our Now by Valyntina Grenier, released by Finishing Line Press in 2022.

Help a Hundred Billion Honeybees Powder Their Thighs

Fact is we’ve been aware of indifference to the flower taking part in
every being

As acorns witness somewhat self-centered angiosperms move freely
trial and error find the best way to induce mater by playing

Or flowers manage to choose the exact moment seduced
off its knobby charms

Clever purposeful fungus conceives
of rotting meat

We care about making copies
Cost and taste make us mortals risk covid for a burger and fries

Time and location select countless generations
Design and catenation are culled by miracle

Trivial semiconscious evolution insists
as this novel strain mounts deaths

a token inventing/ insider/ outlaw contingent desires apparel and
impunity

Valyntina Grenier 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, and Sunspot.

Samantha Duncan is the author of four poetry chapbooks, including Playing One on TV (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2018) and The Birth Creatures (Agape Editions, 2016), and her work has appeared in BOAAT, SWWIM, Meridian, and The Pinch. She lives in Houston.

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