Habitat Threshold
(ars poetica)
by Craig Santos Perez
echo
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gram
-mars of eco
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-logy
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em- body
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proso- dies
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of ear
-th
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touch
distur- bed
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edges
of ex-
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tinct
-ion map
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habit
-at thresh
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-olds sign
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-ify
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abun- dance
sur- render
Craig Santos Perez is an indigenous Chamoru writer from the Pacific island of Guam. He is the author of five books of poetry and the co-editor of five anthologies, He teaches at the University of Hawaiʻi, Manoa.