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VOICES FROM THE FIRE: David Cope

Hour of the Ghost Dance No more will the scioto madtom swim in Ohio’s Big Darby Creek, gone are the ivory-billed woodpecker, Backman’s warbler never to sing again, gone three species of pearly mussels, the flat pigtoe mussel, southern acornshell, stirrupshell lost among the 36 mussels & 70 freshwater snails gone, gone forever, bridled white-eye,Continue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: David Cope”

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Howie Good

Moments Like This Never Last A recorded message assures me for what seems the twentieth time that my call is important. I want wings made of eyes before the hold music returns – “Winter” from Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons.” Somewhere in the future, a frighteningly cadaverous woman in blue scrubs who says her name is AprilContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Howie Good”