Simona Zaretsky
Spider crawls across the rim of pot. I flick it into the rain pounding down. Search the flowerbeds for squirming bodies, run my fingers gently through wet earth waiting for their silky touch.
Fiction: “Worms”
Tag: nature
Prayer for the 17-Year Cicadas
Jodi S. Rosenfeld
We will curse the noise when really we should bless them all—everything is as it should be.
Tell Me How You Got Here: An Interview With Emily Franklin
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Emily Franklin is back, this time with her first collection of poetry, Tell Me How You Got Here (Terapin Books) and she chats with Fiction Editor Yona Zeldis McDonough about the many and varied sources of her inspiration.
Feminist Farming: Learning Teshuvah from the Earth
mada anne
From farming and learning the history of the land, I gain more and more skill in the art of repair, in teshuvah—returning my (our) soul to its wholeness.