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I asked the ocean about loneliness, once. And the ocean laughed and spit salt water in

my face. Nice try, nice try, nice try. What do you think happens to you when you die?

Your body breaks down. Your body gets eaten. Your body becomes the body of this

world that you so desperately, terribly, painfully love.

You cannot die your way out of mattering, said the ocean. Nice try, but we are already

kin.

*Written after reading Donna Haraway’s “Making Kin,” which planted a seed.

http://environmentalhumanities.org/arch/vol6/6.7.pdf. All quotations are from this essay.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Rachel Economy is a writer, facilitator, and

permaculture designer living in Berkeley, California.

Rachel was nominated for a 2017 Pushcart Prize,

and serves as fiction editor at Hematopoiesis Press,

as well as editor-in-chief at the forthcoming Index for

the Next World. Her poetry and essays have

appeared in Dark Mountain, Animal: A Beast of a

Literary Magazine, Watershed Journal of

Environment and Culture, Index/Fist, and The

Round, amongst others. You can find more of

Rachel's work at racheleconomy.com.