![]() Yet Nezhukumatathil doesn’t sit idle on just light subjects. ![]() Nezhukumatathil’s limitless amazement at the natural world bids us to do the same, to examine ourselves among the new blooms and pollen-dusted paths of the gardens and parks outside our homes. The essays collected here are calls to the heart through the lens of the natural world and all its glorious mysteries: the innocent and heartrending questions she chronicles as her sons search for birds on National Audubon Bird Count Day, the painful shock and hopeful longing of a missing cockatiel, the aching memory of fresh citrus from the garden can bring. Nezhukumatathil's training as a poet shines through her descriptions and the details she coaxes to the page. ![]() ![]() Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to playĮach essay is framed by an exploration of something from the natural world: whale sharks with their fairytale origin story (“the spots on his back look like a whole city of light, where everyone is always awake, trying to remember the simple sweet memory of soil”) the astonishingly pungent corpse flower, with an almost human-like temperature the sly movements of touch-me-nots. ![]()
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