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The Whale

By | 2023-12-09T11:46:38-08:00 December 13th, 2023|Categories: Issue 142: December 2023|Tags: , , , , , |

By Kerry Loughman                                    never budged becalmed she was bleached by sun & beached     on relentless rise of blue water liquid leeched from her eyes           her orifices her great mouth agape her lungs did evaporate Climate-changed      her wishes drowned in sand   Kerry Loughman is a retired educator and photographer living in the Boston area. [...]

Two Poems by Nancy Squires

By | 2023-09-04T10:24:44-07:00 September 13th, 2023|Categories: Issue 141: September 2023|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

As the Waters Rise   O God, look down On all our drowned. Hear us, we beg— We’re on our knees. Sorry, so sorry About the trees, The polar bears, the birds, The bees; the icebergs Gone, the thirsty lawns, Plastic gyres, redwood Pyres and all the many, many cars. The eclipsed stars We never see. [...]

The first day of cherry season,

By | 2023-09-04T10:56:27-07:00 September 13th, 2023|Categories: Issue 141: September 2023|Tags: , , , , , , , |

By Emily Hockaday   the sky becomes apocalyptic. The air is wool in my throat. I wear a mask to pick my daughter up from school. The fruit vendors sit next to their colorful carts like the world isn’t ending, and I suppose it isn’t for now or it is just very slowly. And what did [...]

U-turn

By | 2023-06-15T07:13:05-07:00 June 15th, 2023|Categories: Issue 140: June 2023|Tags: , , , , , , , |

By Sarah Waldner   Sharp U-turn on the language around fossil fuels. The text now includes a reference to "low emission and renewable energy.” New funding arrangement on loss and damage. Phase-down of unabated coal power. Concrete demonstration that we really are all in this together. No one will be left behind. Sharp concern on the [...]

September Together

By | 2023-03-11T11:19:42-08:00 March 15th, 2023|Categories: Issue 139: 16 March 2023|Tags: , , , , |

By Elizabeth Shack   Last September, we hiked the forest beside the fog-drenched sea. Followed a swift stream bridged with salmon spawning, returning from gray Pacific homes. Switchbacked beside a waterfall sparkling down steep granite. Emerged into sunlight with a view of lichen-painted rock and the blue-white ice that once sculpted this verdant valley. Is still [...]

Only the Meek

By | 2022-03-18T03:33:21-07:00 March 17th, 2022|Categories: Issue 135: 17 March 2022|Tags: , , , , , |

By Dotty LeMieux   Where are the birds of spring? I see bees—are there enough? Black carpenter ants—we never had them before— emerge from some dusky damp place beneath the foundation. We live in a house of cards. Even a bear takes exception to exceptional times and climbs a backyard tree he must have crossed mountains [...]

Changing Names

By | 2022-03-06T12:19:09-08:00 March 17th, 2022|Categories: Issue 135: 17 March 2022|Tags: , , , , |

Mendocino, California   By Frederick Livingston after how many years does “drought” erode into expected weather? and then what name when the rains do come startling the hard earth the exhausted aquifers? we’ll sing to the deep wells the quieted fire and clean sky “winter” brittle in our mouths holding vigil for rivers elders insects lovers [...]

Backyard Musings in America at Twilight

By | 2021-09-12T13:07:04-07:00 September 22nd, 2021|Categories: Issue 133: 22 September 2021|Tags: , , , , , |

By Ashley R. Carlson   6:52 p.m. Summer, twilight, after a thunderous lightning-streaked monsoon that flooded streets and yards and sent trashcans floating into traffic-stalled intersections. Seventy-eight degrees here in Phoenix, uncharacteristically tolerable for the Sonoran desert mid-August. A breeze ruffles my hair, my German shepherd panting nearby as she lifts her long, jet-black snout to [...]

Voting in the Time of Climate Change

By | 2020-10-28T09:41:26-07:00 October 29th, 2020|Categories: Issue 121: 29 October 2020|Tags: , , , , |

By Ying Wu   The tide swallows most of the beach these days. Sunbathers take refuge in the reeds. And children wade in the new lagoons that stretch across the soft, loose sand. Our poles are melting. The bay spills over the sidewalk sometimes and breaches the steps of private homes. Today, in Texas, voters spill [...]

No Drone

By | 2019-10-30T22:44:44-07:00 October 31st, 2019|Categories: Issue 97: 31 October 2019|Tags: , , , |

By Willa Carroll Willa Carroll is the author of Nerve Chorus, one of Entropy magazine’s Best Poetry Books of 2018 and a SPD Bestseller. A finalist for The Georgia Poetry Prize, she was the winner of Tupelo Quarterly’s TQ7 Poetry Prize and Narrative magazine’s Third Annual Poetry Contest. Her poems have appeared in AGNI, LARB Quarterly Journal, The Rumpus, Tin House, and elsewhere. Video readings of [...]

I’m With Exxon Mobile

By | 2019-10-30T23:02:53-07:00 October 31st, 2019|Categories: Issue 97: 31 October 2019|Tags: , , , , |

By Carl Dimitri Carl Dimitri, a Providence, Rhode Island-based artist, is committed to drawing one cartoon a day until the Trump era is over. Carl has received fellowships in painting from the Vermont Studio Center and the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. He was also elected in 2012 into The Drawing Center in New [...]