Nature… Acorns 23 Feb 20207 Feb 2020 Photograph by Andrew Benton Andrew Benton is an MA student at the University of Sussex in the UK, and a keen photographer. He loves to walk and photograph, photograph and…
Nature… MY Leaf 21 Feb 20207 Feb 2020 Photograph by Martha Nance Martha Nance is a physician in Minnesota who takes photographs of things outside when she isn't inside doing all that stuff she does at work. She…
Nature… Grey Whale Migration 19 Feb 20207 Feb 2020 I stepped down from clouds to stare off a cliff over a bay full of whales, over the tide of their breath. They heave over waves, take in salt air,…
Nature Holding On 15 Feb 20206 Feb 2020 The bigtooth aspens jettisoned their leaves weeks ago four now swirl before me in frigid stream waters that run fast fed by cold soaking rains. The oaks, however, are holding…
Flash Fiction… The Night Guide 14 Feb 20206 Feb 2020 “Is she a furrier? “The ethno-entomologist whispered to me. We listened to an Australian’s plan for stemming the opossum population through the fashion industry. I stifled laughter and enjoyed this…
Flash Fiction… 44.8 x 93.4 12 Feb 20206 Feb 2020 I have sat here on the bluff for ten thousand years, watching. I arrived with the April floods on what used to be a curve in the glacially-swollen Minnesota River,…
Nature… on the hike to church’s blue hole 11 Feb 20206 Feb 2020 reverend hamilton leads me down the dirt path the island heat limitless the sky impossibly blue and everything else suddenly the same he tells me the story of each thing…
Flash Fiction… Lakeside 10 Feb 20206 Feb 2020 Here, the flagrant moon. Spangles of light embellish nocturnal antics on the water's brim. A rush of blue cool, then fireflies, fancy matings. Softly, a riot of resonance. -Janis Butler…
Nature… Wallace Stevens 9 Feb 202025 Jan 2020 There was still snow but when I woke the tree beside the river had sprouted birds not like in summer when the leaves blot out the sky but to hear…
Flash Fiction… Encampment 8 Feb 202025 Jan 2020 Northern lights, drunken ranks of Chernobyl ephemera, waver pink and green high above the boreal shield. In November an odd wind blows sharp from the south, kicking skiffs of snow…
Nature… Drake Falls 7 Feb 202012 Jan 2020 Photograph by Carolyn Adams Carolyn Adams’ poetry and art have been published in the pages, and on the covers of Wend Poetry Journal, Steam Ticket, Apercus Quarterly, Calyx, and Kansas…
Flash Fiction… The Disappearing Pine-Woods Sparrow in York County, SC 6 Feb 202012 Jan 2020 Streaks down your nape and over your back in black and grey, a stripe over your eye in rufous brown. If your markings were mine, how exquisitely they would wrap…
Nature… Cannon Beach 5 Feb 202010 Jan 2020 Volcanic blue advances. Salt lace tatters the hair of a wakening giant. Twig birds pick the shallows, glassy sand melting under their feet. The beach braces, as the sea throws…
Flash Fiction… Sycamore Helicopter Pods Remind Me to Call Home 4 Feb 202010 Jan 2020 Before I forget:sycamore seed pods spin tight circles after you throw husks above your head and I know this because my grandmother loved how trees might grow destined for longer…
Nature… Most Beautiful Wispy Drops 3 Feb 202015 Dec 2019 -Photograph by Denise M Oehl Denise M Oehl was born and grew up in Ohio. She studied art at The University of Toledo. She moved to New York City…
