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Creaturely Migrations on a Breathing Planet – David Abram

Emergence Magazine Podcast

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The Whispers of Cloud

Thousands upon thousands of sand-hill cranes descend upon the flooded field before me, some of them swerving in just above my stunned and upturned face. Their stuttering cries reverberate in the hidden hollows of my flesh, and I'm carried out of myself by waves of intersecting rhythm. The sun slips its toes behind the hills, then sinks down into the earth. A duck out near the middle is speaking gently. Three staccato quacks. Right, right, right. Then three more. And then a series of wobbly lines converging from the northeast and others from the northwest as the swelling, creaky hinged crowd of voices begins to vibrate within

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