A Whistling of Birds 9780099568339 * C-Sections

* C-Sections

not the gutter that carries it to the drain

who is neither missing nor dead but is actually living in a basement lair

Even countries we thought could never experience another civil war - such as the USA

The paranoia

A Whistling of Birds 9780099568339 * C-SectionsDixons gaze takes in Syrian roses, an abundance of apricots in Santa Fe, the memory of a dancing friend; bats, bees, tortoises, snakes, the generous body of a whale. Threaded throughout is the beautiful complexity and vulnerability of the planet, and the joy and difficulty of making art, as each poem becomes its own vivid testament to the natural world.