{"id":1468,"date":"2020-08-05T08:26:08","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T07:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writersrebel.com\/?p=1468"},"modified":"2020-08-19T18:00:07","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T17:00:07","slug":"read-animal-eden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writersrebel.com\/read-animal-eden\/","title":{"rendered":"Read: Animal Eden<\/span>Zakia Carpenter-Hall<\/span>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Animal Eden<\/b><\/p>\n

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It was the year of the viral video,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

nature coming out of hiding.<\/span><\/p>\n

We were supposed to believe\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

that within weeks, animal life\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

had overwritten us with their joy\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

and reckless abandon, as if instincts\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

told them like radio waves signalling\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

through the ether that humans\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

are under quarantine and no one\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

knows how long. Pictures of elephants<\/span><\/p>\n

who\u2019ve eaten, <\/span>Earth knows what<\/span><\/i>,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

forgotten about \u2014 the human dangers,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

perhaps consumed themselves\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

into a stupor of corn wine and lay out\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

in cultivated fields of tea leaves.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I hate to anthropomorphise,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

but are those smiles that I see on all\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

of their faces? As if the predators\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

of the world are gone gone \u2014 vanished \u2014\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

and they\u2019ve reached an Earthly nirvana,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

and it\u2019s heaven! Heaven on Earth!<\/span><\/p>\n

Heaven at last! And some of us humans,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

from the vantage point of our dark screens,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

felt so good for having seen it.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Zakia Carpenter-Hall<\/strong> is a writer, tutor and critic. Her poems have appeared in <\/span>Callaloo<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Magma<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Wild Court<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>3:AM<\/span><\/i> and various visual poetry exhibitions. She was an inaugural winner of Poetry London’s mentoring scheme and her chapbook <\/span>Event Horizon<\/span><\/i> was published by Sampson Low. Her poetry reviews and essays have been published by <\/span>Poetry London<\/span><\/i>, The Poetry School, <\/span>Wild Court<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>The Poetry Review<\/span><\/i>. She is a 2020 Jerwood Bursary Recipient, London Library Emerging Writer and was shortlisted for The Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Animal Eden   It was the year of the viral video,\u00a0 nature coming out of hiding. We were supposed to believe\u00a0 that within weeks, animal life\u00a0 had overwritten us with their joy\u00a0 and reckless abandon, as if instincts\u00a0 told them like radio waves signalling\u00a0 through the ether that humans\u00a0 are under quarantine and no […]<\/p>\n

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