A STATE OF DORMANCY – STORM MANN
Grow with me, I told you / And our roots intertwined. / Does this petal come from your garden / Or mine? / It doesn’t […]
BOOK LIST: ‘THE WOODS HAVE NEVER SOUNDED SO GOOD’
By Eve Volungeviciute || With the impending release of the physical edition of The Green Issue magazine, I figured now is perfect timing to compile yet another list of books, this time themed on, you guessed it, nature. […]
Henrietta – Judy Upton
As Seema surfaced, she wondered how much nearer to the turtle she could get. If she scared it, it would probably dive or swim swiftly away, and […]
“Water Jelly O” – Jayne Marek
Jayne Marek is a writer and photographer who has provided color cover art for Silk Road, Amsterdam Quarterly 2018 Yearbook, Bombay Gin, and The Bend as well as for her two full-length poetry books, In and Out of Rough Water (2017) and The Tree Surgeon Dreams of Bowling […]
EMPEROR OF IDIOMS – RICK BLUM
Envy, how like a carnivorous tide you erode contentment, / unashamedly dragging the color green / (an otherwise pleasant hue) into your toxic […]
SPOIL – HARRY GALLAGHER
Come to me, my sooted boys, / my burntblack cindered lovers. / A million misadventures spent […]
ANIMALS – ROBERT STONE
I heard that 110 wood sandpipers had appeared at Cley. A bird I like to see. The largest group I had ever seen, I am reluctant to call it a flock, was 6. So, 110 was a draw. Was this climate change? Dunno. It is possible to […]
SELF PORTRAIT – LIESKE WEENINK
“I am a newly graduated artist based in Brighton. My practice currently focuses upon the themes of human relationships, health, psychological boundaries and time. The importance of storytelling and the power of an individual voice […]”
THE GREEN LIGHT – JOHNNIE B. BAKER
We sat on the patio of a bar / having a beer, seven months / since you gave up without trying. // Sometimes I […]
TRACK SIGNALS, TURNS GREEN – LYNNE SHAPIRO
Lean in to see out / as the train slows, glass becomes framed mirror. / Greenery becomes you, flannel caresses your one-time youth; / How liquid we are […]