Poetry

  • Your Plan?

    (After Ryszard Krynicki) You won’t feel the rise in temperatureYou won’t have to think about the extinct animalsYou won’t ponder over the plastic and its…

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  • Stratigraphy

    This poem is formatted in a shape resembling a rock formation. It is intended to be read first as in standard English, left to right,…

  • At the Window

    I pray to the Invisible: Please protect usfrom blizzard and hail, from blaze and swelter,from flying insects that sting and swarm,from pestilence and sulfurous miasma,and…

  • Any Time Spent

    Any time spentNot making babies.Or not making money. Any time spentNot tilling the soil.Or not dancing the floor. Any time spentNot watching the sunset.Or watching…

  • Carbon Footprints of Unwanted Children

    I can’t put my finger on it, when did itchange? I would ride my bike miles fromhome, even at night and in rain. No oneworried,…

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  •  Personal Enlightenments on Plant Life

    the form of birth and death                    the smell of some flowers are one of the happiest feelings to me,                        common leaves are a…

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Articles and Prose

  • Wonders in the Shadows of the Costa Rican Rainforest

    At the end of 2024, I was on a surf trip in Costa Rica. Seeking peace and quiet from the hustle and bustle of the…

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  • The Reason the U.S. No Longer Exists

    by T. G. Metcalf The teacher, a woman in her early forties, was seated at a table in her study. The students were scattered within…

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  • A Suite of Sprawling Cattails Occupy a Suburban Woodland’s Edge

    Spaces between the built and natural environment host transient goers. Herbaceous materials gently waver, offering fluffed seedy packets.Delicious debris diffuses along the paved-unpaved zone.Woodland soundscapes rapidly…

  • Feeding Dynamics Across the Land-Sea Interface

    by Josh Kesling Autumnal wrack lines linearly diffuse across beachscapes, demarcating the relationships between land and sea. Peppered with copper browns and aged maroons, not…

  • Stratigraphy

    This poem is formatted in a shape resembling a rock formation. It is intended to be read first as in standard English, left to right,…

  • At the Window

    I pray to the Invisible: Please protect usfrom blizzard and hail, from blaze and swelter,from flying insects that sting and swarm,from pestilence and sulfurous miasma,and…

  • Any Time Spent

    Any time spentNot making babies.Or not making money. Any time spentNot tilling the soil.Or not dancing the floor. Any time spentNot watching the sunset.Or watching…

  • Carbon Footprints of Unwanted Children

    I can’t put my finger on it, when did itchange? I would ride my bike miles fromhome, even at night and in rain. No oneworried,…

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  • Tunneling

    by Steven Ring I’ve been living with the ants for six weeks. Shrinking was awful, but I’m starting to feel better.  Now, every day is…

  • Container

    by Megan Quinn Content Warning: Eating Disorders I glanced at my watch. Ten minutes until lunchtime. I just had to finish four more meters on…

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  • My Idyllic Defense of Walking

    by Sarah Kilgallon and translation by Miriam Ivo Cruz I walk down a shady woodland path, paralleling the city highway. Autos, motos, and lorries hurtle…

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  • Hands and Fingers

    by Angela Townsend My sister writes about leaves in a way that almost makes me want to go outside. In a medium that others use…