{"id":4391,"date":"2021-10-18T11:28:35","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seekingsol.com\/?p=4391"},"modified":"2022-03-08T14:11:44","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T18:11:44","slug":"the-endling-facing-extinction-denial-in-the-eyes-of-the-last-vaquita-orion-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seekingsol.com\/the-endling-facing-extinction-denial-in-the-eyes-of-the-last-vaquita-orion-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"The Endling: Facing Extinction Denial in the Eyes of the Last Vaquita @ Orion Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This essay (<a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/orionmagazine.org\/article\/the-endling\/');\"  href=\"https:\/\/orionmagazine.org\/article\/the-endling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published at Orion Magazine<\/a> this week) began as a poem I couldn\u2019t finish. I wrote the first lines in the back of a classroom at a <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/lidiayuknavitch.net\/bio-1');\"  href=\"https:\/\/lidiayuknavitch.net\/bio-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lidia Yuknavitch<\/a> craft talk. (I was stalking <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.instagram.com\/lidiamiles\/');\" class=\"notranslate\" tabindex=\"0\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lidiamiles\/\">@lidiamiles<\/a>\u00a0in Denver after a jury rejected my application to be in her workshop.) In the back of a grotto I wrote into a prompt that left the pages of my journal wet. When Lidia asked for volunteers to read, I raised my hand. It was the first time I had ever raised my hand in a writing class. When I was called upon, I tried, but choked. Could not muster the voice to make it past two sentences. Since that day, almost six years ago, I have written ninety thousand words into that unfinished poem. It still chokes me, over and over and over. But it turned out that unfinished poem was a portal to a collection of essays\u2014one of which (linked above) the lovely people over\u00a0<a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.instagram.com\/orion_magazine\/');\" class=\"notranslate\" tabindex=\"0\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/orion_magazine\/\">@orion_magazine<\/a>\u00a0published today. So I\u2019m throwing gratitude to all those in that grotto (real and extended community) who\u2014when I raised my hand and cried\u2014touched their own faces. And cheers to everything born of rejection, wet pages, un-mustered voice, and to the doors we find in the middle of poems we can\u2019t finish.<\/p>\n<p>(Extra special love to the mentors\/writers\/editors who helped me shape this piece:\u00a0<a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.instagram.com\/bklorenbooks\/');\" class=\"notranslate\" tabindex=\"0\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bklorenbooks\/\">@bklorenbooks<\/a>,\u00a0<a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.instagram.com\/kate_moses_writes\/');\" class=\"notranslate\" tabindex=\"0\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/kate_moses_writes\/\">@kate_moses_writes<\/a>,\u00a0<a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.instagram.com\/bgresko\/');\" class=\"notranslate\" tabindex=\"0\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bgresko\/\">@bgresko<\/a>,\u00a0<a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.instagram.com\/amontei\/');\" class=\"notranslate\" tabindex=\"0\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/amontei\/\">@amontei<\/a>,\u00a0<a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.instagram.com\/oksanamarafioti\/');\" class=\"notranslate\" tabindex=\"0\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/oksanamarafioti\/\">@oksanamarafioti<\/a>,\u00a0<a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.instagram.com\/otterdown\/');\" class=\"notranslate\" tabindex=\"0\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/otterdown\/\">@otterdown<\/a>. Extra-extra special love to my daughter\u2019s godmother\u00a0<a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.instagram.com\/k.homes\/');\" class=\"notranslate\" tabindex=\"0\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/k.homes\/\">@k.homes<\/a>\u00a0who dropped everything to draw me the last Vaquita (and other illustrations) featured in this piece. A kiss to my husband\u00a0<a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.instagram.com\/slade.o\/');\" class=\"notranslate\" tabindex=\"0\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/slade.o\/\">@slade.o<\/a>\u00a0who loves me through all my eco-distress and writing-angst tears. And ALL my respect to\u00a0<a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.instagram.com\/oona_layolle\/');\" class=\"notranslate\" tabindex=\"0\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/oona_layolle\/\">@oona_layolle<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.instagram.com\/seashepherd\/');\" class=\"notranslate\" tabindex=\"0\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/seashepherd\/\">@seashepherd<\/a>\u00a0for DOING the work I just write\u2014and dream\u2014about.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To avoid awakening only after what we love is pronounced dead, we need to sit up. 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