Between Worlds

Because of the climate
crisis and declining ocean health, humans are increasingly in a liminal
space between this world and imaginary, alien worlds to come. The poems
raise the issue of climate change by foregrounding the centrality,
beauty, and significance of the ocean, and of marine life to humanity.
They suggest that all species live ‘between worlds’: between fantasy and
reality, dreaming and wakefulness, intuition and consciousness, water
and air. We need all worlds to survive. Serendipitously, the poems were
composed between dusk and dawn. They are both part-thoughts and whole
thoughts that come to inspire my ethnographic writing.