{"id":526,"date":"2016-03-25T07:51:19","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T14:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/camino-liubri01\/?p=154"},"modified":"2016-03-25T07:51:19","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T14:51:19","slug":"brian-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/caminomap\/brian-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian \u2013 Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gm-map\" style=\"position: relative;height: 200px; width: 200px;\"><iframe name=\"gm-map-1\" allowfullscreen src=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/caminomap\/?geo_mashup_content=render-map&amp;map_data_key=307763f49437a360658268d6e1b88780&amp;name=gm-map-1&amp;map_content=contextual&amp;error_comment=&lt;!-- Geo Mashup found no objects to map in this context--&gt;\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: none; overflow: hidden;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Endangered Species<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dan Beachy-Quick<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Even this<br \/>\nbrief thought is endless. A<br \/>\nman speaks as if unaware of the<br \/>\nerotic life of the ampersand. In the<br \/>\nisolate field he comes to count one by<br \/>\none the rare butterflies as they<br \/>\ndie. He says witness is to say what<br \/>\nyou mean as if you mean it. So many<br \/>\nof them are the color of the leaves<br \/>\nthey feed on, he calls sympathy a fact, a<br \/>\nword by which he means to make a claim<br \/>\nabout grace. I have in my<\/p>\n<p>life said many things I did not<br \/>\nexactly mean. Walk<br \/>\ngraceless through the field. Graceless so<br \/>\nthe insects leap up into the blank<br \/>\npage where the margins fill<br \/>\nwith numbers that speak diminishment.<br \/>\nAbsence as it nears also offers astonishment.<br \/>\nAbsence riddles even this<br \/>\nbriefest thought, here<br \/>\nis your introduction to desire, time\u2019s<br \/>\nunderneath where the roots root down<br \/>\ninto nothing like loose threads<br \/>\nhanging from the weaving\u2019s underside.<br \/>\nNo one seeing the roots<br \/>\ncan guess<\/p>\n<p>at the field above. Green<br \/>\nequation that ends in yellow<br \/>\noccasions. Theory is<br \/>\ninsubstantial. The eye latches on<br \/>\nto the butterflies as they fly<br \/>\nand the quick heart follows, not<br \/>\na root in nothing but a thread across<br \/>\nabstraction. They fly away.<br \/>\nWhat in us follows we do not name.<br \/>\nWhat the butterflies pull out us<br \/>\nas in battle horses pull<br \/>\nchariot, we do not<\/p>\n<p>name. But there is none, no battle,<br \/>\nno surge, no retreat, a field<br \/>\nfull not of danger, but the endangered,<br \/>\nwhere dust-wings pull from us<br \/>\nwhat we thought we lost, what theory<br \/>\ndenies, where in us ideas go to die,<br \/>\nand thought with the quaking grass quakes.<br \/>\nSome call it breath but I\u2019m still breathing.<br \/>\nSo empty I know I\u2019m not any emptier.<br \/>\nOn slim threads they pull it out me,<br \/>\ndisperse\u2014no<br \/>\none takes notes\u2014disappear, &amp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>About This Poem<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost immediately, \u2018Endangered Species\u2019 responds to the gradual disappearance of a number of butterfly species, most notably the monarch. But in more abstract ways, the poem tries to work within that oldest sense of reciprocity, wherein what damage occurs in the world, also occurs within those considering it, and that realm of thought and idea, so easily assumed to be caught in ideals and so free from actual diminishment, is also diminished\u2014as the world is what one thinks about, and to lose it, is also to witness the loss of the mind.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014Dan Beachy-Quick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Endangered Species Dan Beachy-Quick &nbsp; Even this brief thought is endless. 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