The Lord God Bird

Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder
Oct 30, 2020
1 min read

Updated: Jul 12, 2022

As the existence of the famed ivory-billed woodpecker is increasingly left to the realm of myth, I explore the widespread disappearance of birds in the narratives of apocalyptic prophecy that run through our collective consciousness.

Read at Emergence Magazine: The Lord God Bird

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