By Leslie McGrath The almond wears a thin corduroy vest that cannot protect the nut. The skin of a ripe peach peels like a second degree burn. The oyster clenches even as we break its nacreous wings at the hinge to get at the meat. When the mushroom man appeared with baskets braceleted up to [...]
By John Robilotta I sit on my lanai three flights above the water’s edge. Shore life comes and goes. Black and white ibis, with their elongated beaks, feed on the shoreline. A great blue heron suns on the far banks. Anhingas and cormorants dry their wings atop stone outcroppings. There is much life about the [...]
By Rae Hoffman Jager To David Wallace-Wells While we slept, awoke, and made oatmeal, went to work, walked the dog, and so on, A crack in the ice shelf grew 11 mile— raced the ocean where it dropped with a titanic splash no one heard. As we make messes, more icebergs calve far off— tons [...]
By Arturo Desimone The maritime guards stopped the half-naked, very tall animal-headed strangers on their boats Asked them “Show your papers, please” “All we have are these roses. Yellow and red given to us, a gift, they were once showered upon us from the earth shot from the first catapults, made to launch pure prayer, [...]
