She is also a farmer, a coastal gleaner, a leader of community organizations, a mother, a grandmother, an avid karaoke singer and an environmentalist. Abejero’s poems document destruction, wandering through the flows of interlinked ecosystems and blending the diverse inhabitants of these landscapes into each other. Mudslides become witnesses, human-octopus hybrids embody cruel greed and fish project the emotions of bereft refugees. The principles that guide her environmentalism, and the emotions conveyed in her poetry, offer insights into the drivers and tensions that pervade community-based conservation.