Anna Lena Phillips

•Supplies and preparation for 11/4 printing workshop

Supplies A foam roller ($3.99 at Michael’s) or a brayer Two or three colors of acrylic paint ($1.49/ea and up at Michael’s) or block printing ink Sheets of paper to print on (a bit thicker—printmaking paper,…

•Land Acknowledgment

Ecotone is published in what is now called Wilmington, North Carolina, which is located on the traditional and ancestral territory of the Waccamaw, Catawba, and Cape Fear People, among others whose names we may not know. For thousands of years,

Poetry – Issue 29

Invasives

Nathaniel Perry

The love we walk around with is a dull / tool—though it hangs from our belts with a rusty grace. . . .

Poetry – Issue 29

Garden cycle (keeping time)

Éireann Lorsung

Early blue lavender (Munstead) and air cannons over grain fields
(the pheasant, visiting us regularly now, startles in the hedges)

Rosemary flowers like minuscule orchids (and insects see how to go)
Writing at all feels pointless from the moment I think about death

Poetry – Issue 29

•This Is the Love

Diane Raptosh

This is my lover, but when I cease to love him I will leave him.
This is my lover. For him I am, of an evening, leaf and hymnal.
This is my lover. But when I seize love, certain trees sing off-key.

Poetry – Issue 29

Bellwort

G.C. Waldrep

Everything comes first from the mind of God, which is the hand of God, / the thinking hand. /
Did you want the destruction to take place before the beauty, or after.

Poetry – Issue 29

•The Museum of Natural History

Meghan Dunn

My nephew presses his hands and face to the glass
to see a seal diving into an acrylic sea, an otter
floating on its back, fur damp and ruffled,
face turned to the painted sun. He wants

Poetry – Issue 29

•[one moment it is summer, glasses]

Corrie Williamson

One moment it is summer, glasses / of white wine in our hands as we hover / around Beverly’s evening primrose bush / awaiting the promised 9:10 p. m. show.