Shelter in Place
byI am not prepared for shelter in place only apples and lemon and chard also emergency (rare) in my fridge my faulty IP address …
Poetry
If You See Something Say Something
byI cannot speak Spanish or honeybee but I know it is important to tell you the moonlight is different in New Mexico. Red &…
Bloom
byHesperoyucca Whipplei, also known as Our Lord’s Candle, Spanish Dagger, Spanish Bayonet, Quixote Yucca, Chapparal Yucca, Foothill Yucca Glimpsed from the freeway, and then in the…
Crying on the Coast
byfor Moises Velasquez-Manoff and Gabriella Demczuk Wildfires are another accelerant.Saltwater marsh advancingon the pond pine with a blank checkand a taste for renovation,…
Engine, or What I Am Learning from the Animals
byAugust in Mississippi and everything is turning atmosphere. My sunglasses fog. My hair clouds. On the porch, the board game left out overnight warps like heat…
Two Poems by Stephen Wing
bySomewhere on the Mass Migration It’s an expanding universe. I imagineyou and I are fingersof a groping green god,budding twigtips, unfurledleaflets drunk with light,seeking…
Gesture and Omen
byYet you have gone to Nunnelly while the country is deep in its minusesand the nurses are dying.Praise the day you tired of crying every replyand mesmerized…
I’m starting to believe elasticity is a virtue
byLashing hickey on muddying sky is thunder’s vibrating ringtone. My begrimed hands never content with flash, they want rain. Is…
Two Poems by Gwendolyn Morgan
byA Note to Spotted Towhee: Listen, the clouds move slowly, sun-litBlack-tailed deer with wild bird seed on their nosestranslate hoof prints, Western red cedar…
Mirrorform Psalms
byMirrorform Psalm Can I do you some good? Are you too flush for favors? Do all your favorite flavors sweeten your spoon when they…