Habitat Threshold
(ars poetica)
by Craig Santos Perez
echo
gram
-mars of eco
-logy
em- body
proso- dies
of ear
-th
touch
distur- bed
edges
of ex-
tinct
-ion map
habit
-at thresh
-olds sign
-ify
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.