The Environmental Outdoor Exhibit Project (EOEP)

by Jenny Ward AngyalGibsonville, North Carolina, USA a boulder lieswhere the glacier left it—clear as crystalthe old crone’s memoryof fire and of ice graniteunder a thin peltof grass . . .climbing the hillher bones grow weary paper birchesbending to sweepthe earthshe brushes a leaffrom her hem a cedarat the top of the knollriven long agoby lightning . . .the rain in her hair empathycarved deep in the barkof a sapling . . .gnarled fingers tracethe lines of her scars ~red lights 18:2, June 2022

By Jenny Ward AngyalGibsonville, North Carolina, USA Dark-eyed and playful, childlike but childless, Elizabeth Ann needs an emergency hysterectomy or she will die. Her lithe young body recovers quickly from the surgery.  It’s hard to know if she grieves—but her caregivers do.  Elizabeth Ann is a Black-footed Ferret, cloned from the frozen tissues of a Ferret named Willa, who died more than 30 years ago.  The few hundred Ferrets living wild today are all descendants of just seven taken from a Wyoming ranch in a desperate attempt to save them from extinction.  They’re inbred and threatened by disease. Ferrets eat…