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Gretchen VanWormer contemplates art and queer community, Marco Wilkinson imagines foraging across time, and Anne Haven McDonnell listens to climate crisis inside a fir tree. Plus new stories from Jerome Blanco, Vanessa Chan, and Chioma Urama, poems from Catherine Carter, Stephanie Niu, and Mary Quade, and paintings and collages by cover artist Lisa Love Whittington.
Forget the grit of the dirt that you dig your heels into. Forget the force that the Earth exerts upon you just as you exert upon it. Forget air resistance and center of mass. The principle rests only on Newton’s second law: F = ma.
In conversation with Robert Frost, Gaston Bachelard, and a sound machine, a poet / essayist charts a path through her local greenbelt to map memory and impermanence.
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