Tag: eclipse

Essay in Southern Humanities Review: Fragments of Bone, Fragments of Light

The world I had imagined as inanimate was coming into animation—rock and plant in constant motion, each species of animal living along its own vivid timescale. And while I had always struggled with the idea of death, I now found myself wondering why I had only been troubled by this future I would not witness—and not everything in the past that I had already missed.

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New Publications: Lunar Eclipse off Exit 88 & What Gould's Magpie Has Stolen

Two poems up now in the latest issue of Minding Nature, a publication from the Center for Humans & Nature.

Cover Art by Courtney Mattison Cover Art by Courtney Mattison

LUNAR ECLIPSE OFF EXIT 88

Somewhere in Oklahoma, speeding through scrubby darkness, we pulled off the highway on Exit 88…

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WHAT GOULD’S MAGPIE HAS STOLEN

For its feathers, the prism of light that broke its blacks into iridescence…

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