We’d made a cult out of the opposable thumb, as if it were a reason why the rest of the world could be allowed to disappear.
Author: Alison Glenny
lives on the Kapiti coast. Her Antarctic-themed collection of prose poems and fragments, The Farewell Tourist, was published by Otago University Press in 2018.
A History of Extinctions
It was only then that they realised that the floor of the museum was covered with a layer of ash, in which their footsteps left deep but silent traces.