Cathartes Aura and the Apocalypse Zoo by Eighty Six

Now a few descriptive words sneak in there, i.e. Remember that the vulture is the narrator and observes the human activity. The reader gets to observe the groups separately as Cathartes Aura flies around looking for food and then ultimately as they find each other.Īs I was reading, there seemed to be something missing for the most part- emotion. Some come together peacefully and some want to dominate.

Note: I received a complimentary eBook of Cathartes Aura on the Road from Nowhere to review.Ĭathartes Aura the turkey vulture has returned to observe the remaining humans in the area and their behavior.

I also wondered a bit in the end how our narrator on the wing could know so many details of things happening inside stores at a shopping mall.īut all in all, this second book in the Cathartes Aura series is an engrossing, apocalyptic, poetic read, and I look forward to reading the next poem in this series. Small details are being shared, by an interesting, rag-tag group of survivors, about how this world came to be, but the complete story is not understood by this reader yet. The Road from Nowhere is an interesting story. It is also known in some North American regions as the Turkey Buzzard (or just Buzzard).Īnd in the case of this story, Cathartes Aura is our narrator, the winged eyes looking down on a post-apocalyptic world, sharing his view of the landscape and survivors in poetic verse. Or, for the more casual observer, Cathartes Aura is the Turkey Vulture, a bird found throughout most of the Americas. Cathartes Aura: From the Kingdom: Animalia

Cathartes Aura and the Apocalypse Zoo by Eighty Six