Time to Fly by Ruth Padel
Ruth Padel’s poem Time to Fly tells of human and nonhuman moving on. Moving on is ordinary, she reminds us, and necessary. It’s the thread that unifies us across time, space, and species, and what makes fences and borders so inviting of trespass.
Time to Fly is one of ninety poems in Padel’s collection The Mara Crossing, which brilliantly intertwines science, myth, animality, and history to depict a world pervaded – and created – by migration. This is reflected, too, in Padel’s disregard for the conventional boundaries of literary form.
Alternating between prose and poetry, the atomic and the global, the human and the animal, this collection embodies the expansive terrain we hope to cover in Issue 4.
Listen to editor PJ read the poem below:
