NO CHAIN 3: Narrowing Road

 NO CHNO CHAINAIN

volume 3

Narrowing Road

Narrowing Road 

Living can feel like             every choice

is a step along a path that gets 

smaller and smaller

until life encroaches in a tangle of roles

and the road becomes

a ball of yarn                   and the yarn becomes

a frumpy sweater         and then

you hardly know yourself in the cornfield.

xAB

scavenger art

in the spirit of New World vultures

in the spirit of new roads

About the California Condor

This spring, I saw one flying near the Grand Canyon.

A condor’s wingspan can be over nine feet. 

They feed on carrion. 

10,000 years ago, North America was home to thousands of condors.

Ancient condors have been found in the La Brea Tar Pits and other archaeological sites around the US.

In the mid 1980s, humans captured the near-extinct birds and housed them at the L.A. Zoo and San Diego Wild Animal Park.

In 1987, there were only 27 condors left on earth. 

We began releasing California condors back into the wild in 1991.

In 1999 there were 161 condors.

In 2015, more wild condors were born than died.

In 2020, the population count reached 518 birds,

337 free-flying in the wild.

The path forward was narrowing, so we took to the sky.

NO CHAIN

a zine

for Abby

volume 3

Narrowing Road

[by Annabelle Bonebrake]

March/April 2022

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