Don’t Waste Your Wildness

Once, while writing my first book, I lived on a lush volcanic island balding with so-called civilization, lawnmowers muffling its birdsong to turn its jungles into golf courses.  I watched waves taller than factory chimneys break into cliffs black as spacetime, making mansions look like a maquette of life.  I beheld the ancient indifferent faces of turtles older […]