“When winter’s cloud cover vanishes, the naked planet lies exposed to marvels. The heated summer air, ground under cold northern air, becomes lenticular, shaped like a lentil or lens. When the very air is a lens, how the mind ignites! We live among high heaps of mirages, among pickets and pilings and stacks of waving light. We live in a hall of mirrors rimmed by a horizon holey and warped.” //from the essay “Mirages” by Annie Dillard, as appears in the collection Teaching a Stone to Talk, 1982

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• A Note from the Editor
• Anna Duprey: Block Island, October 2003
• Annabelle Bonebrake: Painted Ladies
• Constance Wrzesniewski: Full Moon on a November Night in the Woods of Hickory Run
• Don Thompson: Trouble in Mind
• Elizabeth Moura: Mother
• Ali Znaidi: Fireflies Sonnet
• Marcela Sulak: On the other hand, every tree and reed and bird I see this morning is pressing
• Sassan Tabatabai: Janevaran
• Robin Ray: Lost at Sea
• Jacob Kobina Ayiah Mensah: Best into the Void
• Giles Goodland: The Slow Worms
• Tom Bailey: early crocuses
• Katherine Holmes: How a Vine Staves Off Eviction
• Some New & Recommended Reading
• Art: ‘Melanoplus sp.’, rubbing of a bronze tile by Nancy Webb
• Art: Sparrow, from the "My Backyard Birds" series by Alicia Collura

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Art on the front cover adapted from dustjacket art by John O’Hara Cosgrave II for the 1949 edition of Dark Trees to the Wind by Carl Carmer.

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