NewVerseNews Wednesday: NATIONAL PARK
by Jerome Berglund
Dogs roam the ghost town of Pripyat within the Chernobyl exclusion zone in Ukraine. Scientists have identified genetically distinct populations living in the area, including within the highly contaminated power plant. Credit: Dimitar Dilkoff/Agence France-Presse—Getty Images via The New York Times, March 3, 2023
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The Dogs of Chernobyl Are Experiencing Rapid Evolution, Study Suggests
–Popular Mechanics, April 1, 2023
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near fifty odd past, generations of curs in the fallout plume rose up into the air but has it dissipated toys left behind during hasty retreat from exclusion zone through ruins of the power plant feral strays mutating irradiated populations not eradicated over the dog years unmolested other kingdoms time to flourish the casualties by necessity continue evolving beneficial adaptations can they be reabsorbed into populations tempering for weathering this boiling world roaming the wastes admiring the many sunflowers
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Jerome Berglund, recently nominated for the Touchstone awards and Pushcart Prize, has many haiku, senryu, and tanka exhibited and forthcoming online and in print, including in the Asahi Shimbun, Bottle Rockets, Frogpond, and Modern Haiku. His first full-length collection of poetry Bathtub Poems was just released by Setu Press.