"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
'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
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