Okapi by Fiona Moore Abigail Parry but how they were used

but how they were used to balance and explain the world and its predicaments

six pomegranate seeds eaten by mistake

to the fate of Congo’s Patrice Lumumba in the contemporary

The sun shines and we gather because the river allows it

Okapi by Fiona Moore Abigail Parry but how they were usedFiona Moore asks am I really here in gaelic they say in an island not on it and, as readers, we might begin preparing ourselves for an immersive experience. Okapi is a single, book length poem, set mostly on (in!) a Hebridean island during the pandemic. Moores rich descriptions recreate the island as a living protagonist: the subject of reflection, memory, destruction, loss (symbolised by the rare okapi, a favourite animal in her childhood zoo),