Betrayals of Gravity: The Flight of the Phoenix

The author witnesses the creation and eventual dissolution of the fragile institutional structures that have held her in place. Surrounded by dissonant choirs of institutional tension, broken trust, conflicted agendas, she finds herself moving through fractured and polarized spaces in the academy. Amidst the rubble of her own institutional life, the poetic voice calls her to look through images of rupture to other fragile landscapes in the throes of disruption. She bridges these worlds to make sense of her own and the larger more-than-human landscape.