The essential quality of animals is that they live purely by the great purposiveness of life itself; they have not a double consciousness, as we have. They are at one with the invisible vital law.- DH Lawrence
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"I thought / this is what precedes / sudden disaster: / our second brain that cannot / talk, hears the ticking"
A poem by ๐๐ซ๐๐๐ ๐๐ฒ๐ง๐ง in the Spring issue
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Read my new translation of ๐โ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐โ๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ฃ๐๐ ๐กโ๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐ก๐๐๐ by ๐๐ผ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐๐ฟ๐๐ป๐ฌ๐๐ซ๐ผฬ๐ฆ๐ฒ๐ซ.
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Does ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฝ๐ฌ ๐ก๐๐๐ ๐ฉ๐ค ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐๐ช๐ก๐ก๐๐จ๐ฉ really mean ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ณ ๐๐ซ๐๐ง๐ฎ ๐๐๐ฎ (aka eat chicken every day) like KFC wants you to believe?
See it for what it is.
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"probing the silence โ crossing the sound of silence โ vanishing โ dark and thought โ thought and fire โ (dense) โ it's night above Rome [above you]"
A poem by ๐๐ง๐ญ๐จ๐ง๐ข๐จ ๐๐๐ฏ๐ข๐๐ข๐๐ง๐ญ๐ข in the Spring issue
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"A single man, with a single love, / woke up alone on the outer rim / of a churning, barely lit galaxy, / and fired up a search engine."
A poem by ๐๐จ๐๐ข๐ง ๐๐ข๐ง๐๐ฌ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ฌ๐จ๐ง in the Spring issue
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Until we all learn the true meaning of LIFE and DEATH, innocent animals will continue to be tortured and slaughtered for PROFITโthe sole remaining purpose of meat.
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Read my new translation of ๐๐๐๐๐ก๐๐๐ฆ ๐๐ค๐๐๐๐ โ ๐ป๐๐ข๐ ๐๐ by ๐๐ผ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐๐ฟ๐๐ป๐ฌ๐๐ซ๐ผฬ๐ฆ๐ฒ๐ซ, from his book ๐ป๐๐๐๐๐โ๐๐ก๐๐ ๐๐ฬ ๐ฃ๐ฬ๐๐๐ (๐๐๐๐๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ ๐กโ๐ ๐๐๐ฆ).
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"I'll not see two of these winters / With their hours of frozen dark / Calling me out of the mousehole."
A poem by ๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐๐ง ๐๐ซ๐ฏ๐ข๐ง๐ in the Spring issue
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We need another concept of animalsโthey are โgifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hearโ (Henry Beston).
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STOP FACTORY FARMING!
We sacrifice everything thatโs real, the natural world, sentient animals, our health, our climate, to uphold a contrived paradigm that equates meat with wellness and prosperity.
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Read ๐ป๐๐๐ฃ๐๐ ๐ก ๐๐ ๐กโ๐ ๐ท๐๐๐, an in-depth #interview with ๐๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ฐ๐๐ซ๐ญ. Jane is speaking to ๐.๐. ๐๐๐ซ๐๐๐ซ๐ญ about her new poetry collection ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ก & ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ก & ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ก & ๐ต๐๐ ๐ก.
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"The animal is not beneath us, but beside us; its path through time runs parallel to ours, only differing in the music by which it moves." - Eliseo Reclus
Animals arenโt just a part of nature, they ๐๐๐ nature.
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"A fishโs opercle bone, / delicate shield for a soft comb of gills, / a trap door for water to / sieve into breath, the connector of self / to everything else."
Two poems by ๐๐ฅ๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐จ๐ง in the Spring issue
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Slaughtering animals for meat isnโt a collective needโitโs an individual choice. Evolution doesnโt imply violence any more than tradition implies killing.
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"Hearth at the edge of the barren / heath. Heart in the
flames, licking / his lips..."
A poem by ๐๐๐๐ช๐ฎ๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ง๐ข๐ซ๐ง๐ฌ๐๐ก๐ข๐ฅ๐ @JacqKnirn in the Spring issue
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So grateful to the editors of @aboutplacejourn for publishing two of my poems: ๐ด๐๐๐๐๐ and ๐ถ๐๐ข๐๐ก๐๐ฆ ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ถ๐๐๐๐๐.
Read in their excellent new issue ๐ป๐๐ ๐ฎ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ผ๐:
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"It is a curious thing, that in observing animals closely, one sometimes feels as if they are attending to us with an intelligence parallel to our own, though built on different lines." Charles Darwin
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