In Which I Ponder Some New Kind Of Slaughter

Sonneteer's note: The full title of the graphic novel reviewed here is Some New Kind of Slaughter - or - Lost in the Flood (And How We Found Home Again): Diluvian Myths from Around the World (and you thought my titles were long!).

Did this ark save or just delay us, asks

Ziusudra, afloat amidst the flood

That haunts our legends, dramas, myths and masques.

Some New Kind of Slaughter does not, in blood,

But water drowns the world as tales unfold

From all times and all cultures. Noah's there,

Nuwa, Manu, Tamendonare, old,

Uncanny figures all, each comes aware

Of what's to come, as in our present day

One woman sees the facts of what we've done

And knows it all could happen just that way

To us. As stories twine we're watched by one

Great turtle, who'll inherit a wet world,

So Mann and Lewis' nightmare is unfurled.