So. Here\u2019s this photo<\/p>\n
Of a 2 million-year-old<\/p>\n
Jawbone with a few toothy<\/p>\n
Molars clinging to it.<\/p>\n
Our common ancestor.<\/p>\n
It looks like something ashy<\/p>\n
Pulled out of the fireplace.<\/p>\n
I remember the Leakeys<\/p>\n
Having found another something<\/p>\n
One hundred thirty thousand years old<\/p>\n
In the Olduvai Gorge<\/p>\n
Fifty years ago, and proclaimed<\/p>\n
\u201cLucy\u201d our very own<\/p>\n
Primary Eve. <\/p>\n
Two million?<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve been scrabbling<\/p>\n
Around this planet<\/p>\n
For two million years?<\/p>\n
Grunting and sucking<\/p>\n
And fucking and feeling pain<\/p>\n
And still haven\u2019t figured out<\/p>\n
How to live together in peace?<\/p>\n
What pre-historic monsters<\/p>\n
Are we?<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Sander Zulauf\u2019s new books include: Where Time Goes <\/em>(Dryad, 2014) and Basho in America<\/em> (iUniverse, 2014). He is editor emeritus of the Journal of New Jersey Poets<\/em>, and in 1999 he was appointed first poet laureate of the Episcopal Church in the Newark Diocese (Northern New Jersey) by Bishop John Shelby Spong. New work appears in the anthologies Palisades, Parkways and Pinelands and Howl of Sorrow, the 35th anniversary issue of Lips, Exit 13 Magazine (#22), Tiferet, and is forthcoming in the Paterson Literary<\/em> Review<\/em> and US 1.<\/em> He is recipient of the Allen Ginsberg Award and seven Pushcart Prize nominations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So. Here\u2019s this photo Of a 2 million-year-old Jawbone with a few toothy Molars clinging to it. Our common ancestor. It looks like something ashy Pulled out of the fireplace. I remember the Leakeys Having found another something One hundred thirty thousand years old In the Olduvai Gorge Fifty years ago, and proclaimed \u201cLucy\u201d our [&hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1137,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[228,187],"class_list":["post-4400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-mural-from-5pointz","tag-photo-by-pamela-hughes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4400"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4405,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4400\/revisions\/4405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}