THE LAST CANARY IN THE COAL MINE: SMALL, YELLOW, AND OMINOUSLY SILENT
Over the past fifty years, anomalies have occurred within Earth’s atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere. Some of these have caught the attention of scientists and environmentalists only, while others have produced media frenzies. Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring identified the risks of bioaccumulation to egg-laying animals, especially raptors (1962); habitat destruction led to the near extinction of [...]
Kinds of Love
We just kind of lost touch,
the world and I.
There was, love of cabinetmakers.
Love like flash light in a subway tunnel
where the train isn’t gonna go no more.
Love of muddy raincoats, love of crimpered hair, love of the night monkey, love of the shoehorn. Love of files. [...]
Transgender [1] parents or parents-to-be occupy a uniquely precarious legal position in many Western democracies. A vindictive ex-partner may litigate for exclusive custody; employers may, according to collective bargaining agreements, refuse to recognize the validity of the child-parent relationship and so deny family benefits, maternal, paternal and bereavement leave; the courts may deny trans parents [...]
THE PEN AND THE CRANE
He said there are no straight lines
in nature. Trees curve, tomato stalks give
under the weight of their fruit, fingers
never point perfectly. He holds a book,
we listen, carry on studying how to keep the engine running.
A woman with a cityscape tattooed
on each shoulder stood in [...]
OCEANIA
Maggie has always envied her sister Tricia’s place of birth. Oceania—how it rolls off the tongue like a wave, how it sounds bigger than anything. She was born there, to Beth and Don, in 1977, her head dipped in the Pacific just moments after leaving her mother’s womb. Five years later, Beth pushed Maggie into [...]
Death, age indeterminate, is accused of various criminal charges including blackmail, extortion, bribery, discrimination, harassment, fraud, tax evasion, and “contributing to global instability”, a crime which has recently been invented specifically for this trial.
A spokesman for the United Nations has gone on record to state that “We considered adding murder to the charges, but [...]
DISCOVERING ETHNOCENTRISM
It’s hot. I’m dirty. I stink. Despite my low level of hygiene, I feel good. I’ve just successfully crossed the Cambodian boarder into Vietnam.
I’ve been traveling for a little over two months so far. It was strenuous at first, and hard to get used to nearly everything. You find yourself relearning things [...]
This morning, the front page of the national newspaper reads “BC put on alert for huge quake.” Yet again. So do I hop on a plane to Calgary or continue obliviously sipping my coffee? The reality of an eventual massive earthquake on the British Columbian coast is a given. As my mom, discontent with raging [...]
Girl! … girl … GiRL!
If I could rearrange the alphabet, I’d put “U” & “I” together…
Ah, no, that won’t work; you’ve probably heard that one before…
Okay, I’ve got it…
Girl, if you and I
Were octopi…
No, if we were colossal squids,
I’d take you dancing, [...]
The Book of Thwile: A Children’s Book
“Praying to those deities in the sky,
Can never account for the chickens that die
“Stuffed in small cages with no room to run
They squeeze out your breakfast and croak when they’re done!
“all day you recline on this mattress of fluff,
When you barely acknowledge what gives you [...]
La la la, dun…dun…dun, loo, loo, loooooooo. That was all she remembered from the song; a song sung to sleepy girls with black hair, black eyes, and simple dreams- I want a doll baby, or I want a kitten friend- but never much more.
But the story went on, in both song and verse- [...]
Every school of thought is like a man who has talked to himself for a hundred years and is delighted with his own mind, however stupid it might be.
~ J.W Goethe, 1817, Principals of Natural Science
Export or Die. This is the prevailing recommendation by the world’s predominant school of neoclassical economic [...]
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What is evolution? Who was Darwin? What do the words Darwinism, natural selection, or survival of the fittest really mean? These words and phrases have been bandied around over the past century, used interchangeably, frequently in the news, and known very much as players of one of the most controversial topics in our society today. [...]