Amy Katherine Cannon is a writer and writing teacher living in Los
Angeles. She received her MFA from UC Irvine, where she was the
recipient of the Gerard Creative Writing Endowment. She is the
Oliver Sacks has died at eighty-two of the cancer he knew
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would end his life. Many have offered apt
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fly with fluid wingbeats
in swift bursts of straight flight
execute quick tight
turns and dives rarely gliding
flying a few inches above
the ground or water append their nests
in mud to