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habitat in any direction

5/31/2025

"The study seems to have proved that
to preserve the species, we need to conserve
about six square miles of habitat in any direction."

From Poet Reads Science Paper on Natal Dispersal, Rena Priest, in Creature Needs: Writers Respond to the Science of Animal Conservation, eds. Christopher Kondrich, Lucy Spelman, Susan Tacent

habitat again

5/30/2025

"to interconnect
habitat again
throughout the range
of the species, providing
corridors through
the desert, yes,
but also through us
that we must maintain
even as we sit"

From Maintenance of a Functional Ecological Network, Rajiv Mohabir, in Creature Needs: Writers Respond to the Science of Animal Conservation, eds. Christopher Kondrich, Lucy Spelman, Susan Tacent

talking to sea citizenry

5/26/2025

"Somewhere in this poem we are on a tv screen talking to sea citizenry
'You fight death, don't you?'
A quirky, twitchy eye death and distance from land
Close and personal power then settler colonialism
Death's step dad slapping audiences around"

From Senses, Tongo Eisen-Martin, in Creature Needs: Writers Respond to the Science of Animal Conservation, eds. Christopher Kondrich, Lucy Spelman, Susan Tacent

howling

5/25/2025

"Numbers so low
its howling has to go further
in maintaining the pack."

From Ahí Viene el Lobo, Mónica de la Torre, in Creature Needs: Writers Respond to the Science of Animal Conservation, eds. Christopher Kondrich, Lucy Spelman, Susan Tacent

remember this feeling

5/24/2025

"Turn towards the light Do you
remember me?
Do you remember this feeling?
The right choice
is covered in light
That's how you know"

From A Simulated Chance Is Not a Real Chance, Oni Buchanan, in Creature Needs: Writers Respond to the Science of Animal Conservation, eds. Christopher Kondrich, Lucy Spelman, Susan Tacent

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