Caribou
Karen Solie, 19 January 2023
“... Why, after so many years, is she with me now?We who were not close in lifewalk among the caribou lichenwhose coral-like low forms, white against the mossesand wild blueberry in its red phase,seem to give off light.She has escapedthrough the window of the body’s house of harminto the freedom of a truth that will never be recognised.And indeed they do give off light, fungi and algaein a collaboration that obscuresthe individual collaboratorswho’ve taken it entirely off-spectrum,reflecting every wavelength and phosphorescing under the UVintensely where appearing most delicateas though, as has been written, the best metaphor for stillnessis constant motion ... ”