Arborcide
Caroline Giles Banks - Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA Mother maples, and their promised seedlings and saplings, filter pollutants from the air.…
Three Haiku by Caroline Giles Banks
Caroline Giles Banks - Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA sun and windunfundedwhat on earth? tsuri-doro #27 (May/June 2025) lilacs re-bloomspringdiscombobulates bottle rockets #52 (February…
Tick-Tock
By Caroline Giles BanksMinneapolis, Minnesota, USA In 1947, when time was kept in a pocket or worn on the wrist,…
McMammoth
By Richard King Perkins IIHuntley, Illinois, USA This is a clonein the shape of a woolly mammoth.For her, Siberia isn’t…
THE MOMENT
By Regina (Gina) PiroskaTasmania, Australia Exhaling, I hear the sound of my breath as I lean into the rising hush. …
Seagulls
By Regina (Gina) PiroskaTasmania, Australia seagulls gatheron the abandoned trawlera drifting cloud Published Echidna Tracks #15
PTSD and Psalms
Katy Z. AllenWayland, Massachusetts Yah is at my right hand, I shall not falter. Maltreatment, disregard, cruelty,abuse, defilement, contaminationdo not…
Complexity
By Katy Z. AllenWayland, Massachusetts sitting by a streamenveloped in subtle autumn beautyfeeling solid ground beneathbreathing invisible life-giving airawareness awakens…
One October Morning
By Katy Z. AllenWayland, Massachusetts One October morning, the Merlin app on my phoneheardonly a single dark-eyed Junco.Nothing else. My earsheardcars…
The Gardens of Antarctica
By Robert WitmerTokyo, Japan The gardens of Antarctica breathe free. Free of the hideous white. A dense green silence remembers…
Tide Ledger
By David Anson LeeBellaire, Texas, United States We keep a ledger of small losses: one slipper at the pier, two…
Dispatch from the Thinning
By David Anson LeeBellaire, Texas, United States They said our town still had a forest, though it clung to the…
Building a Birdhouse
Robert WitmerTokyo, Japan That stuff is for the birds, the builder says, when I point out the loss of shade…
Atlas of Small Things
By David Anson LeeBellaire, Texas, United StatesWhen the last map burned,we traced new roads from thumbprints:salt in the seams,a country…
Depravation Darlings
By Colin JamesMassachusetts The acronym B.L.A.H.written on the clubhouse door,because legends are human.I will follow you anywheresuitably hydrated, then demobbedin…
radioactive soil
By Vidya PremkumarKerala, India barely open –the sunflowerson radioactive soil
October Showers
By: Regina (Gina) PiroskaTurners Beach, Tasmania, Australiaoctober showersa blackbird tugs at the wormstretchingwe prepare to join the group at a yoga…
Magpie
By: Regina (Gina) PiroskaTurners Beach, Tasmania, Australia the magpiepostures on a sheep's backin tall wheat grassthe discarded red remainsof a…
A cloud of blackbirds
By Melissa DennisonBradford, Yorkshire, England I am standing with my pen poised to record but it's so quiet and still.…
Particulate Matter
Artwork: Katrin DavisTanka: Tish Davis