Poetry

  • Garbage

    Ah! love, let us be trueTo one another! for this garbage, which seemsTo go like an end of a diseaseSo large, so filthy, so toxicHas…

  • 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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Articles and Prose

  • 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…

  • Woodcut Prints

    Zebra in Nairobi National Park (2019) Undefeated by Rain (2020) Marine Circus (2020) The Story Goes On… (2019) Nanako is a graduate student at Yale…

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  • Call for Submissions: Eclipsed Ecologies

    Annual print edition submission deadline is January 5. Prize amounts from $250 to $500.

  •  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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  • More Than Just Us

    More Than Just Us A hawk broke their shoulder, collided with a building encroaching their wetlands. The hawk was taken in,and with time and care,…