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a little more or a little less

5/12/2025

"In the middle, just right and as good neighbors, we live --
Happy, content, thriving on an elegant adequacy.

A little more or a little less and the scale is tipped.
The world is not our place anymore."

From On Comedy Night, the Giant Gartersnake Fails at Open Mic, Alberto Ríos, in Creature Needs: Writers Respond to the Science of Animal Conservation, eds. Christopher Kondrich, Lucy Spelman, Susan Tacent

a gesture of attentive listening

5/11/2025

"...making a gesture of attentive listening in the desire to repair and restore, and yet..."

From Where One Thing Begins, David Naiman, in Creature Needs: Writers Respond to the Science of Animal Conservation, eds. Christopher Kondrich, Lucy Spelman, Susan Tacent

once been

4/20/2025

"...or that sometimes he felt he was witnessing the searing of what had once been a green and verdant garden he had played in."

From Brackish, Hester Kaplan, in Creature Needs: Writers Respond to the Science of Animal Conservation, eds. Christopher Kondrich, Lucy Spelman, Susan Tacent

should rain soon

4/14/2025

"He doesn't want to go," Toby said. "He needs water."
"Should rain soon," Dan said. They all looked at the cloudless peach sky.

From Exodus, Ben Goldfarb, in Creature Needs: Writers Respond to the Science of Animal Conservation, eds. Christopher Kondrich, Lucy Spelman, Susan Tacent

Stream of Verified Love

4/10/2025

"Survey every field as a stream of verified love

Favor every waterway as victorious result"

From Transferability of Turtles, Tina Cane, in Creature Needs: Writers Respond to the Science of Animal Conservation, eds. Christopher Kondrich, Lucy Spelman, Susan Tacent

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