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Poetry  – 

Rose of Sharon (or, Sonnet Missing Two Lines Because the Baby Has a Cold)

Kate Lebo

Not dead, not beautiful, not afire,
this bush—so, no God. No alarms, either.
In the heat its blooms hang like rags, tired
as Mary’s first Christmas. The true pyre
is west. . . .


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•Ceres in the Burning Rainforest

Anne Barngrover

darkness now falls as little else does // the roof a potent symbol fires are not wildfires not // old-growth trees. . . .

Poetry  – 

•Extinction, Laserpicium

A. E. Stallings

Consider silphium, extinguished flower, / Kin to the wild carrot, Queen Anne’s lace, / Fennel and dill, and rooted now no place. . . .

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Global Warming

Maura Stanton

He looks up from his magazine at the beach ball globe floating near the edge of the pool. The familiar pink and blue and yellow continents painted across turquoise seas look like harmless flowers. . . .