My poem is in Pure Slush’s seven deadly sins volume Pride.  Here is a link to the book. http://bit.ly/PrideBk

and here is the poem. Fun to write this one.

Hiraeth

Sure, Moses qualifies
but it’s hardly a stretch
to include those
DNA ghouls—
lanced and shorn—
who purpose their lives
in finding
some fabulous
ancestor—
hoping they might puff
up their emaciated chests
like frigatebirds
in heat
and point excitedly to
an illustrious branch
of their family tree—
but seem, always,
to come up with
monkeys.