Lucia Perillo: I've Heard the Vultures Singing: Field Notes on Poetry, Illness, and Nature

Yet our unsuccessful hunt for other life in the galaxy tells us that life itself is the aberration, a quirky miracle we’ve been allowed to participate in — which for some is proof enough of God and for others is what makes antidepressants superfluous. Still, death is our default mode, and the process of maturation means coming to accept our mortal nature with humility and wonder. And the salmon — in their one and their many — ask/s us if we get this.

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