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From the magazine:Birdsong of Shaker Way
By Ann-Margaret Lim
Every day is perfect, if
when you wake, you hear birds
in the garden, in the yard. Birds

up and down, ushering…
From the magazine:As Bee
By Paula Bohince
Forgive my trespass, I mistook for work a crown
of raspberries and custard. Thank you, tartlet, thank…
From the magazine:Petition for Reintroduction
By Kate Partridge
I don’t want to get emails from
the wolf people anymore, but
they know where I am—have known
precisely…
Characteristics of Life
By Camille T. Dungy
Ask me if I speak for the snail and I will tell you
I speak for the snail.
speak of underneathedness
and the welcome of mosses,
of life that springs up,
little lives that pull back and wait for a moment.
75 ["Wake, butterfly"]
By Bashō
Translated By Lucien Stryk
Wake, butterfly—
it's late, we've miles
to go together.
Passage
By Jack Collom
"When one is seen gliding through the woods and close to the observer, it passes like a thought, and…
Grief is a Mouse
By Emily Dickinson
Grief is a Mouse—
And chooses Wainscot in the Breast
For His shy House—
And baffles quest—
The Vulture & the Body
By Ada Limón
On my way to the fertility clinic,
I pass five dead animals.

First a raccoon with all four paws…
The Two-headed Calf
By Laura Gilpin
Tomorrow when the farm boys find this
freak of nature, they will wrap his body
in newspaper and carry …
From the magazine:Of the Animal Soul
By Annette C. Boehm
Translated By Annette C. Boehm
In days of old, animals believed
humans to likewise have a soul

Children mostly still think this way today…
From the magazine:Von der Tierseele
By Annette C. Boehm
In alter Zeit glaubten die Tiere
Menschen seien ebenso beseelt

Kinder denken meist noch heute so.
Ihre…
Probability and Birds
By Russell Atkins
The probability in the yard: 
The rodent keeps the cat close by; 
The cat would sharp at the bird; 
The…
Our Heron
By William Olsen
Observation isn’t serious play. It is living serious. Same heron. It’s used to us, we are as twilight…
Disentangling a Gray Whale
By Maya Khosla
Water minus air becomes wound.
Her blowhole, bursts of breathing,
trapped in an endless curtain of netting…
From the magazine:The Honey Alone
By Li-Young Lee
Bees come
from out of the sun,
God’s fevered eye.
Any simple child can see.

Tears are gifts
from the…
Buzzard
By Milan Děžinský
Translated By Nathan Fields
I had taken him to his mother
and was returning along the D8.
In the breakdown lane several cars, and …
The Covenant
By Brenda Hillman
Having stopped using dolphins to locate explosives in the Cold War
they had 30 leftover dolphins.
An officer…
Caterpillar ("Brown and furry")
By Christina Rossetti
Brown and furry
Caterpillar in a hurry,
Take your walk
To the shady leaf, or stalk,
Or what not,
Which…
Lockdown Gardens: "Set with raindrops"
By Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
Set with raindrops, displayed
between the king’s mantle and the litchi tree,
was the cobweb I almost walked…
From the magazine:
Al Público: AVIO-MAMUT
By Nicolás Guillén
No era
la ruina de una avioneta,
como en un principio se creyó.
Era la osamenta
seca y abandonada de un …

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Disentangling a Gray Whale

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Lockdown Gardens: "Set with raindrops"

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Al Público: AVIO-MAMUT