“Between the sea and the land is a stretch of pelagian country where the frontiers of the two elements become indistinct. Skylarks from the fields fly with sealarks. The plow and the fishing boat, a stone’s throw apart, furrow the land and the water alike. The sailor and the shepherd borrow from one another’s tongues: the sailor says ‘the waves are flocking’, and the shepherd speaks of ‘fleets of sheep’.” // from Memoirs from Beyond the Grave, the autobiography of François-René de Chateaubriand, 1848.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• A Note from the Editor
• Sassan Tabatabai: Arachnifriend,
• Meg Tyler: Docent
• Art: Blue Jay, from the chapbook Birds: How I See Them by Alicia Collura

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