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William Keckler

Zoos Should be Closing and Sequestering Animals to Protect them from H5N1

Every day now is bringing us stories of the torturous and unnecessary deaths of animals trapped in zoos who are being exposed to…

Jan 16

Jan 16

H5N1 is Already an Animal Pandemic Worth Grieving (and Adjusting Behavior Over)

The current iteration of the bird flu is now a true animal pandemic or panzootic. “Bird flu,” in fact, is now a woefully inadequate moniker…

Jan 16

Jan 16

My Brother, the Cricket

My only brother has an anatomical anomaly. He was born with a pair of cricket legs situated symmetrically on both sides of his body, just…

Jan 13

Jan 13

Fisherman

An old man sits in a creekside chair where his father sat for years. He looks down into the stream where his father fished, endlessly…

Dec 17, 2024

Dec 17, 2024

What Happened to Trenny Gibson?

Trenny Gibson was only sixteen when she vanished from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park during a class trip. This happened on October…

Dec 13, 2024

Dec 13, 2024

She

“Die and be the grass and I will forgive you,” she said. “Let the wind blow through your hair. Let any living thing lie down upon you, and…

Jun 18, 2024

Jun 18, 2024

After

After poisoning the entire colony of sugar ants, you find a solitary ant foraging in your shower. What to do? Do you wait for her to find…

Jun 17, 2024

Jun 17, 2024

You

You don’t believe in the afterlife. But you put a lovely old birdbath in your backyard. You smile at ghosts too. After you are gone, I…

Jun 12, 2024

Jun 12, 2024

Just Now

Just now a jet’s rumble in the shopping mall of the sky. The birds were talking. They stopped, then resumed. A new mailman is walking the…

Jun 12, 2024

Jun 12, 2024

Could

I could think and talk suddenly, and put clothing on myself. I was not like the other animals towards which I had always crawled in…

Jun 12, 2024

Jun 12, 2024

William Keckler

William Keckler

Writer, visual artist. Books include Sanskrit of the Body, which won in the U.S. National Poetry Series (Penguin). https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/532348.

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