Darwin’s Daughter takes the advancement of science, the preservation of human morale and the observation of the human condition and places it under a microscope. Shearin’s artful word choice and prose phrasing makes her poems come alive. Readers will spend hours upon hours in this collection.

Escapes
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Praise for the seven chimpanzees
at the Kansas City Zoo who fashioned
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a ladder from branches; praise
for the eight monkeys in Brazil
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who used stones to smash open
a lock. We need more penguins who
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slide over thirteen foot walls
to plunge into Tokyo Bay . . .