Sharon Hayes and Andrea Geyer
by Leanne Trapedo Sims

Much of the interpretation of prehistoric techniques is based upon those employed by contemporary caribou hunters in the subarctic

I eat needles, miniature evergreens. Larch and hemlock for gallimaufry grass soiree.

Then, as now, people split open the carcass through the midsection in order to dislodge the internal organs

I disappeared 10,0000 years ago and they arrested my mast molar. Touch it, if you like. It’s in a jar.

Choice parts of the animal—such as the heart, liver, and tongue—were oftentimes set aside for the hunters

Let me hold those up for you, he said, my long breasts bite his wooly arm

The carcass was skinned and cut into quarters, making it easier to transport, and after the meat was removed, the bones could be broken open to reveal the edible marrow inside

Once I was a femme fatale, eyelashes cruised my eyebrows. I posed, a bodily scissors for couples. I bought life with my body. Once I had a body.

Please do not touch the Dire Wolf Canus Dirus

I’ve had male lovers who made me walk before them. Bruja, my jealous eyes. Bruja, you hybrid creature

Larger and more powerfully built than the modern gray wolf, the dire wolf was one of the most common carnivores during the terminal ice age

Salome dances for Herod. She wears John the Baptist on her cunt. There are connections between witches and jews. Witches travel through closed doors to feast on the flesh of christians. Impious women fly on the backs of beasts

pleistocene horse scalplock

Leanne Sims is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Performance Studies at New York University. Her poetry has appeared in numerous journals and she has an essay forthcoming in an anthology on memory, food, and gender, to be published by the University of Massachusetts Press. She teaches an original course entitled, "Freaks": The Culture of the Grotesque in the undergraduate Drama Department at New York University. She has an interest in the historical and contemporary sideshow.

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