Monarch

by Caitlin Stobie Black-veined orange, the Latin proves it: yours is a regal species. But now you’re dead centre in an unmoving wiper (I, driver, was too late t...

Pugnacious Beasts

by Andrea Lani One morning I held a snapping turtle in my hands. Her shell was the size of a dinner plate, oblong and slick with a coating of greenish-black alg...

Blackbird

by Kathy Miles In his stern black feathers he swifts from elm or oak to claim his patch of seed. His song drips into sluggish veins, the fluency of music, as bl...