Lay of the Land
Urban Geology
Sitting one day on the stoop of a Manhattan brownstone, I became aware of a streetscape that, with cars, awnings, and trees removed, was a concatenation of brick and stone. I Continue reading
Ecology & Science
Feature
Safe Passage
The success of large wildlife corridors depends as much on sharing space as it does on stitching the wilderness together. Continue reading
Enumeration
10 Words Technology Borrowed from Nature
The internet is often described as an ecosystem, and many of its parts are named after the natural world. Continue reading
Poetry
Struggling to Distinguish the Lupine Blue (Icaricia lupini) from the Acmon Blue (Icaricia acmon)
(for Jonathan Pelham who devised the key) Dorsal iridescent hue of cyanic overlay? A thicket of specifics, Extension of dorsal forewing marginal line often barely distinguishable, toward base along veins—absent, faint, Continue reading
Poetry
Sandbar, Early June, Kansas River
Something in the water smells like a dead zone. Something in the mud creeps across my heel. You can drift out here. The silt, the silt. Every dust bowl longs< to Continue reading