Poetry. Those environmentally inaccessible neanderthal caves of include me nevada, by Colin James. Image: the silhouette of a washing machine left open in a desert.

Those Environmentally Inaccessible Neanderthal Caves of Include Me Nevada

Evidence of our forebears’ 

 

cliff cave pollution spreads. 

 

From way up here 

 

an irregular series of white dots. 

 

Closer examination reveals 

 

old washing machines, dryers 

 

left out to soak up some sun. 

 

If you listen carefully 

 

below the sand-ridden wind 

 

you can hear them whimpering at night 

 

still cycling their anguish 

 

in energy-saving cold water. 

colin james

Colin James is a poet. 

 

His chapbooks, Dreams Of The Really Annoying and A Thoroughness Not Deprived of Absurdity, are published by Writing Knights Press and Piski’s Porch Press, respectively. His book-length collection, Resisting Probability, is published by Sagging Meniscus Press.  

 

Born in England, he now lives in Massachusetts. 

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