The Widening Gyre - The Offing
Insight - The Offing Magazine
A tender, devastating essay. Jennifer Kane spent nearly fifteen years as a US civil servant — a biodiversity adviser at USAID, bound by all the careful rules about when a federal worker may speak. Then, in early 2025, the agency was dismantled around her, and she found herself suddenly released from the tether.
On a weekend in the Blue Ridge Mountains she meets a group of falconers, and Yeats's 'The Second Coming' becomes her way of thinking it through: who is the falcon, who the falconer, and why does a bird come back when it could fly away? A meditation on voice, silence, and what it means to be let go.
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