by Matthew Johnson | Jul 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
Dreams of a Portland Watershed by Sam Olson Dreams of a Portland Watershed Through gullies we made a wilderness of, Arnold Creek raised us with its thickets. There were gutted, flipped-over cars. Mildew-coated homes abandoned mid-build. Fern-roofed sheds spilling...
by Matthew Johnson | Jul 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
Curiosity Killed the Cat by Kaz Hatch Curiosity the Cat Killed Not the early fall’s field mice,snitching through tallow grass tall and crisping, Not a sparrow or a swallow or a red-striped snake,unwound and left limp on the doorstep, No grasshopper that zipped into...
by Abby P. Metzger | May 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
Grit and Gumption: Bringing Back Ecuador’s Forests by Abby P. Metzger Photo by Todd Brown Grit and Gumption: Bringing Back Ecuador’s Forests I’m not going to make it to the top. Ninety minutes into the hike, we’ve just passed the old-growth clearing with 45 minutes...
by Danielle Gauntz, Allison Collins | Feb 16, 2025 | Uncategorized
Bobcat by Allison Collins Photo by Lori Ayre Bobcat In summer, my husband saw a mother bobcattrit-trot across the bridge up the road,trailing three cubs.Like me, I thought. He’d warned the men working there,orange-vested and steel-toed, to be wary.Warned, too, the...
by Henry Hughes | Sep 10, 2024 | Uncategorized
Emergence by Henry Hughes Photo by Henry Hughes Emergence Ankeny Wildlife Refuge The Rail Trail’s shotgunned sign, squashed masks, and slick boardwalk are engagements of neglectthat don’t faze the song sparrow, the wrenriding out winter among the purple leaves...
by Penina Ava Taesali-Matthews | Sep 10, 2024 | Uncategorized
Return by Penina Ava Taesali-Matthews Photo by John Lewis Matthews Return You are here. Use your good ear. Sense there, high at one-o-clock, on that dead snag, two adult bald eagles. One lifts its head chortling to the sun. Winter rains restore the marsh. We are good...