Keynote
A unique work of science and poetry, winner of the Cave Canem Prize, selected by Natasha Trethewey
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Boreal vestige: atop its bluff, the lone
wolverine surveys the cratonic vista,
sparse trees and the grays of extinct
volcanoes splayed to the horizon—
The rose of twilight culminates
in the air, the haze as pristine
as one perfected only in frescoes.
They comfort the return visitor—
These habitats that never change:
idylls for the wrecked earth.
—from “Dioramic Idylls”