On learning that all eight species of pangolins are endangered
The rumbling of rain and fighter jets in practice
is filling my November, I mean the jets
are practicing, not the rain, it doesn’t need to,
it is adept at falling, like a knee
knowing how to bend, until yesterday,
mine didn’t …
Poem, in its entirety, is available in the printed version of the current issue.
Bio:
Diane Massam writes about the entanglement of nature and mind, with recent publications in Arc Poetry Magazine, the New Quarterly, and Fresh Voices. The winner of the Federation of BC Writers poetry competition (2021), she is also a professor emeritus of linguistics at the University of Toronto, where she has completed a certificate in creative writing. She lives near the ocean in her hometown, Victoria, British Columbia, the traditional territory of the Lekwungen peoples.