“When I write about nature, I am writing about loss. I am writing about discovering home where home has been replaced by structures I do not want to recognize. The place I was born into no longer exists. I don't have a town I can call home. Unless language is home.” // from Guidebook to Relative Strangers by Camille T. Dungy, published in 2017

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• A Note from the Editor
• Connie Resneski: A Plethora of Punchdrunk Crows Roosting in the Venerable Ash
• Ann Chandonnet: Marginalia, and Buzzard Song
• Jefferson Navicky: Encounter in Orange, and Storm Chasers
• TR Poulson: Cain Did Not Kill First

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The front cover art is adapted from an illustration by Ralph Beilby (1744–1817) of the Wallachian sheep, Ovis Strepsiceros, for A General History of Quadrupeds by Thomas Bewick (1753–1828), fourth edition, published in 1800 at Newcastle Upon Tyne. In the public domain.

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