Anne Marie Macar Poem on Steller's Sea Cow

Steller's Sea Cow is a poem written by Anne Marie Macar that appeared in the American Poetry Review (Mar/Apr2007, Vol. 36 Issue 2).

We all need a little culture with poems and song from time to time.

It is suggested that if you can access the journal it is a worthwhile read. The poem is a warning and a parable of life, humanity and extinction. An all true reminder of the world around us.

Below, therefore, are the opening two sections of this poem:

Even as they killed them
to extinction, the sea cows
drifted and swam in arctic waters
unafraid of the stranded men.

In the sea cows' parables it was foretold
that extinction comes
into the mind before the body,
a kingdom of oblivion