Albatross

Albatross also has a few new poems reflecting recent changes and a classic analysis of our perennial quest in 'Searching for a dodo justice Soul'. That is an analysis of the notion that only humans have a soul. Hence animals are born and live and die with the burden but without the benefit of a soul. Yet the proof for and against the concept whether it relates to animals or humans is placed under the microscope for any discerning reader. Albatross by the author is a hard-hitting book which covers the connection between racism and sexism and speciesism in relation to our ecology and the environment. Together the anvil striking poems and tough calling-down prose encapsulate the practice and use in all aspects of our animal abuse. The subjects run the gamut suffered by our subjects from abattoirs to zoos, from trophy hunting to killing kangaroos and from fast fading gorillas to the appearance of serial killers. The poetry is wide-ranging from slavery to wife-selling covering every related subject in between on the widespread legal discrimination within our society towards animals. Each one defines what animals need to survive on their planet. Albatross shows the ones who fall at our feet as well as those we choose to wear and eat. The poetry of our legal animal slavery is compared to how we have treated others who are vulnerable too in the graphic connection between racism and sexism and speciesism. In doing so we see the pale imitation of camouflaged cruelty in the pursuit of our conspiratorial truth towards injustice. Animal Rights percolates through each poem so every word is weighed for the benefit of those who are denied the use of them. For we ensure all animals are hamstrung by the lack of a human tongue. Albatross concerns the final frontier of our last moral crusade of the 21st century. Animals must be members of rather than numbers in our society where they are mere statistics of misery. Their fate and fortune and future in our scheme is the broken-winged theme of Albatross.