Dodo Feathers: Poems 1989-2019 is about eclipse and extinction flightlessness and lost futures both public and private. The title comes from the poem ACounterfactual@: The opposite of hope is not despair it is the wish for freedom in the past long gone: the unaborted second term of RFK the Yorkist claim triumphant in the field Arbenz Lumumba Mossadeq alive and signing legislation with a Dodo-feather pen.