by Hannah Cajandig-Taylor Dominik Lange — After John Edgar Wideman’s “Stories” The International Union for Conservation declared the Spix’s Macaw extinct in the wild twenty years ago. What ornithologist spent weeks bug-bitten in the Amazon swamps, recording field notes on foliage & absent birdsong. What compelled them to choose this life. Does the macaw know this. Can a culled bird sense the Aegean Blue of her feathers gleaming in the 5 o’clock glow. Is she aware of the gold