elegy is a self-deleting poem about ongoing loss of species that cannot be recovered, and our responsibility to them.

As parts of the poem disappear, they cannot be recovered by refreshing or re-opening the browser. Loose sketches of several animals recently declared extinct may be seen in the background.

For readers navigating the poem via screen-reading software or otherwise troubled by the poem's speed of change, an accessibility mode here significantly slows the rate of transition between "moments."

Please remember that there is a ecological cost to all media production and consumption; the digital is no exception.

Original code, licensed with CC BY-NC 4.0.
pine forest audio by klankbeeld | CCBY 4.0

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