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consumerist, fast-­‐paced cultures) to relearn and remember how to mourn the ecological diversity we

are so rapidly losing. If we don’t, who will? If not now, when?

Inevitably, confronting the reality of species loss and environmental destruction requires that we

confront our own complicity. Like the woman in the poem, we find ourselves clinging to little things,

small comforts that seem impossible for us to give up.

Dana Anastasia is a writer, musician, photographer, and

herbalist from the Cascade foothills of Washington State. Her

poetry has been featured or is forthcoming in Enigma Rag,

InkSpeak, Extract(s), and the Lucid Moose Lit anthology, Like

a Girl: Perspectives on Feminine Identity. In 2013, her first

chapbook, Songs from the Hollow Alder, was published by

the Black Dog Arts Coalition. Through her work, Dana aspires

to help bridge the gap between the tangible world of

“objective reality” and the ephemeral world of mystery and

myth.