Zoo for Well-Groomed Eaters | Lauren Brazeal

Lauren Brazeal teaches writing in the Dallas / Forth Worth metroplex but in her past she's been a homeless gutter punk, a resident of the Amazon jungle, a maid, and a custom aquarium designer. Her second chapbook, Exuviae, is forthcoming from Horse Less Press in 2016 and her individual poems have appeared or are forthcoming in DIAGRAM, Smartish Pace, Verse Daily, Barrelhouse Online, and Painted Bride Quarterly among other journals. More about her can be found at http://www.laurenbrazeal.com                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Lady Praying Mantis   See how we can stomach almost anything. You call us pious,   but ours is not the God of Lambs. We lord only over insolent things: aphids, flies   and crumbling moths sin