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.