This selection, chosen by Guest Editor t.r. san, is from Honeymoon Shoes by Valyntina Grenier (Cathexis Northwest Press 2023).
Deities and the Human Brain
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
equality 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 Grenier (she/her) is a multi-genre artist living in Eugene, Oregon. She is the author of four chapbooks and one full length collection. You can find those books at Bottlecap Press, Finishing Line Press, Cathexis Northwest Press and various places where books are sold. Her latest poems and visual art can be found in Beyond Words Magazine, Beyond Queer Words, Cathexis, Querencia and Wild Roof Journal. You can find her, her visual art, and links to her work around the web at valyntinagrenier.com.
t.r. san is a poet and translator currently based on Gadigal land, with recent work found in minor literature[s], The Cincinnati Review, HAD, Smokelong Quarterly, The Offing, &c. read & reach @thoushallkill on Twitter, or trsan.neocities.org. 
