1. A common raven Corvus corax high overhead. Not so common, and beneath, where I stand only A window a mirror But no blood. Are you listening? This essay is…
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Jennifer Calkins
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1. I saw… I saw an ant pitta near Papallacta. I saw a mot mot near Mindo I heard an owl in Seattle What we love barely exists I was…
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The Birds: Wren Hunt 2017–prelude to a Manifesto, Chid-it!
by Jennifer Calkins January 9, 2018I write this out of grief and hope. I write this cu ca cow I write this in the language of the slime mold, there is a manifesto or is…
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i. I missed writing on wren day this year. But I saw a wren, Sinaloa perhaps?, on St. Stephen’s Day. In the foothills of the Sierra Madre. I don’t think…
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The Birds: Wren, Wren, Kinglet, Quail
by Jennifer Calkins January 14, 2016Drooolin, Droolin, where’s your nest? Tis in the bush that I love best In the tree, the holly tree, Where all the boys do follow me. Where was I this…