AN INVASIVE SPECIES, by Lucia Lu

Poetry, chapbook, 24 pages, from Bottlecap Features. WHEN LIFE INTERPENETRATES, WE ANIMALS OF THIS EARTH ADAPT, DIE, AND BECOME OTHERWISE UNRECOGNIZABLE TO OURSELVES. IT BECOMES UNDENIABLE THAT CHANGE IS IN SOME PART ALWAYS LOSS. THAT CHANGE-AS-LOSS IS UNNEGOTIABLE. THAT WE ARE NOT IN CONTROL OF OUR (UN)BECOMING. THIS CHAPBOOK CONTAINS ELEVEN POEMS. THEY ARE ABOUT INVASION, INTEGRATION, FAILURE OF INTEGRATION (REJECTION), AMBIGUOUSLY WILLING VIOLATIONS, SOLIPSISM, PURPOSEFUL SURFACE, IMMUNE RESPONSE, PSYCHOSURGERY, AND RENOUNCING DISSOLUTION. SOMETHING ALWAYS PERSISTS, IN THE AFTERMATH. BUT SURVIVAL IS NOT ALWAYS AN OPTION. SURVIVAL IS NOT ALWAYS IN THE WAY YOU THINK. LUCIA IS LITERALLY JUST A GUY. THEY ARE A BODY THAT GRATEFULLY SHARES THIS EARTH WITH OTHER BODIES. THEY HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED IN HAD MAGAZINE.