“Our economic language can’t address the demise of species; and of biodiversity, which is partly a devastation of wonder and abundance; and of Nature which is and is not us.” // poet A. E. Stallings, from a deleted tweet

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• A Note from the Editor
• Amanda Leigh Passmore-Ott: Red Flag Warning and The Existential Crisis of Rabbits
• William Cordeiro: Tumamoc
• Kira Córdova: Tanka for Plate Tectonics
• Connie Bacchus: lines & curves & flatland & scablands
• Seth Benton: Migration
• Kelly R. Samuels: Considering Water
• ZG Tomaszewski: Passage of Time and Another Lifetime
• Charlene Langfur: Looking Around At Daybreak
• Holly Day: Small
• Arno Bohlmeijer: Coming near
• Kate K. Hamilton: Communion and The Sentinel
• Twyla M. Hansen: Mid-November Song and Where I Am From
• D. Eric Parkison: Still
• Matt Thomas: Sapiens

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The front cover art is adapted from a photo by Linda Tanner of a Great Blue Heron rookery at Farmington Bay Bird Refuge, Utah. The birds nest in “a man-made structure at the edge of the Great Salt Lake” where “squawks and groans are heard almost constantly and the young ones are beginning to socialize with neighbors.” Licensed under CC BY 4.0. The background incorporates a map symbol for freshwater marsh first published in French’s Manual of Engineering Drawing for Students and Draftsmen, 1911. In the public domain; accessed via the Educational Technology Clearinghouse at the University of South Florida.

This issue was edited by Zachary Bos with Spring 2026 intern Peter Elliott. © 2026. All rights reserved by contributors and editors for their respective work. Texts may not be reproduced other than for personal or academic use without written permission of the author or editor. Reviewers are encouraged to excerpt when reviewing. Birds are encouraged to project when twittering.