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 […]
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 […]
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— […]
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 […]
