Everything is Participate

An Extract*

‘Everything is participate.

Everything is a part of the world we can see, taste, tickle, touch, hold onto,

and then it is dust.’

Mary Oliver

I come home from the school run to find a visitor. It is morning and the air is wet but not unpleasant. Juvenile crows circle against dark clouds, making a racket, putting a sinister edge on things.

She has tuck…