Our Human Shores explores living in the Anthropocene the ecological disasters life faces and the barriers and inequality society faces in trying to create a better and livable world.Our Human Shores is an exploration into how language is rooted within the Anthropocene and how poetry shapes meaningmaking faith in people and institutions and death through lyricism experiment and ecopoetics. Using a phrase from John Keats Bright Star sonnet Our Human Shores explores a tautology of thresholds and shores to remake our world our experience of nature and our relationship with climate creation and humankindampamp8217s existential place in a world staring down the apocalypse.Our Human Shores is a speculative work that will guide humanity through extinction.