Kelly DuMar
Eventually Evolution
Remember we didn’t start like this – we didn’t always
have these (mostly) hairless bodies, didn’t walk upright,
didn’t love with such ferocity – these things took millennia
to develop. From amoeba to boneless invertebrate –
jellyfish or mollusk – to fish with legs that eventually
pushed itself up onto land and walked, through pure
effort and a million years of slowly evolving. Eventually
it got bigger, grew fur, pushed past monkeys into some
early Neanderthal version of a human – not very smart
and quite ugly. Till eventually we figured out fire
and the wheel and hand tools and the Earth keep
circling the sun and the land broke apart and drifted
into the continents we more or less have today. Humans
started wearing pants and we went to the moon
and we dropped LSD and bombs on other countries
and eventually I met you and the muscle in my chest,
which took millennia to evolve into this exquisite bloody,
beating heart found you and I knew, this is exactly
what we’d been aiming for from the very beginning.
Courtney LeBlanc is the author of Beautiful & Full of Monsters (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press), chapbooks All in the Family (Bottlecap Press) and The Violence Within (Flutter Press). She is also the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Riot in Your Throat, an independent poetry press. She loves nail polish, tattoos, and a soy latte each morning. Read her publications on her blog: www.wordperv.com. Follow her on Twitter: @wordperv, and IG: @wordperv79.
Kelly DuMar is a poet, playwright and workshop facilitator from Boston. She’s author of three poetry chapbooks, girl in tree bark (Nixes Mate, 2019), Tree of the Apple, (Two of Cups Press), and All These Cures, (Lit House Press). Her poems, prose and photos are published in many literary journals including Bellevue Literary Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Crab Fat, Storm Cellar, Corium & Tiferet, and frequently in Feral. Kelly serves on the Board of the International Women’s Writing Guild (IWWG), and produces the Bi-Monthly Open Mic Writer Series attended by women worldwide. She blogs her daily nature photos & creative writing at kellydumar.com/blog.