Silene
learn first to listen_
to the germinating ࿓
ancient seeds & also
catching echoes
North Island Kōkako duo
intimate conversation
with absence of Huia
on Tiritiri Matangi Island, 22 February 2020
Kōkako pair,
“Bird Doll” ceramic & mixed media by Kirsty Gardiner
Bobolink
Learning to listen
through recording
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Macaulay Library
Sound Recording Workshop
June 11-18, 2017
The Story Isn’t Over
Chapter 22 from
Wildness: Relations of People and Place
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017
PDF
The Barren Woman Becomes One Who Bears Up Multitudes
Resilient Questions: What Kind of Ancestor Do you Want to Be?
Center for Humans and Nature
March 2017;
Yupik dancers, Emmonak, Alaska
in Sarah Elder and Len Kamerling’s Drums of Winter (1989)