by Julia Griffin

“’We risk only having respect for things insofar as they resemble human experience and characteristics,’ writes Anna Grear, among the best analysts of [the new “animism”] movement. ‘The law [instead] needs to develop a new framework in which the human is entangled and thrown in the midst of a lively materiality— rather than assumed to be the masterful, knowing centre.’”
—The Guardian

Can someone make this game work?
I’m feeling quite humangled:
The law has made a framework
In which I’ve been entangled.

You shrug this off as kids’ stuff?
I scorn your humentality:
I’m flailing in the midst of
A wild materiality!