In this short, sharp pamphlet, Rachel Gippetti has crafted shapeshifting love poems and elegies that lean into the fear that comes with parenthood and living in what is likely the start of the next great extinction.
Fusing personal and societal concerns, small new worlds are created, pulling creatures and civilizations from long ago into our troubled present. A sense of temporal folding permeates these poems, but the pamphlet as a whole works to leave the reader awake and alert to this precious, present moment.