From “The Return,” by Linda Hogan in Ecotone 37 🌕 “Grasses swallow earth and vines consume the sunlight / To create the small egg-shaped gourds.” Read the full piece + subscribe: ecotonemagazine.org/poetry/the-r... ‎ #Ecotone #TheMoonIssue #LitMagLove

From “Bleachflood,” by Amit Majmudar in Ecotone 37 🌕 “Every year the Year of the Weevil, / Dead bees sprinkling the gravel, / Honey and harvest laced with ricin...” Read the full poem (for free) + subscribe: ecotonemagazine.org/poetry/bleac... ‎ #Ecotone #TheMoonIssue #LitMagLove

From “September Lament After an August Away,” by Susan Blackwell Ramsey in Ecotone 37 🌕 “Spring distracts us with daffodils... But where now are tomatoes in boxes and bags? The chipmunks have eaten.” Read the full piece + subscribe: ecotonemagazine.org?p=20166

From “Moon Jelly,” by Lisa Williams in Ecotone 37 🌕 “I will feed it to you from my cold hand // all its eggs bobbing and in each, an eye, asleep. // You hold it on your tongue and then, to the moon, return it...” Read the full poem + subscribe: ecotonemagazine.org/poetry/moon-... #Ecotone

From “Rondeau for a Long-distance Love,” by Allison Joseph in Ecotone 37 🌕 “I take your books to bed with me / enchanted by the history / of how you’ve lived and where you’ve been...” Read the full poem + subscribe: ecotonemagazine.org/poetry/ronde... @allisonpoet.bsky.social #Ecotone

From “Late Night Let Down,” by Katherine Indermaur in Ecotone 37 🌕 “her kingdom tugs / at her bidding its heavy tides // her fists like pin curls / spring against the light” Read the full poem + subscribe: ecotonemagazine.org/poetry/late-... ‎ @kgindermaur.bsky.social #Ecotone #TheMoonIssue

From “Ghost Fishing,” by Sara Kass in Ecotone 37 🌕 “We gulped down / promises of light, of warmth, of more time / owed to us. We tried to drown out // how it all had to end. . .” Read the full poem + subscribe: ecotonemagazine.org/poetry/ghost... #Ecotone #TheMoonIssue #LitMagLove

From “Solstice,” by Hailey Leithauser in Ecotone 37 🌕 “I’m waiting up late / for this great moon / to burn out. . .” Read the full poem + subscribe: ecotonemagazine.org/poetry/solst... ‎ #Ecotone #TheMoonIssue #LitMagLove

From “A hard-edged glow,” by Rachel Nelson in Ecotone 37 🌕 “Who loved me / when I was a tough-skinned / melon—a lump // of red coal...” Read the full poem + subscribe: ecotonemagazine.org/poetry/a-har... ‎ @rachelhnelson.bsky.social #Ecotone #TheMoonIssue #LitMagLove

From “Look Up Mammal,” by Carolyn Oliver in Ecotone 37 🌕 “Look up mammal > / prompts the phone, unprompted. I do...” Read the full poem + subscribe: ecotonemagazine.org/poetry/look-... ‎ @CarolynROliver.bsky.social #Ecotone #TheMoonIssue #LitMagLove

From “Snowy-white, Rosy-red, Will you?” by Clare Beams in Ecotone 37 🌕 “To look at them was to want to eat them, which was what I wanted to do to my delicious baby daughters too...” @clarebeams.bsky.social Read the full story + subscribe: ecotonemagazine.org/fiction/snow... ‎

From “Revelation of the Porpoise,” by Su Love in Ecotone 37 🌕 “O! Allsound, inrush, rip-sweep, erupting– / I lost the count–blazestar music hurling...” Read the full poem + subscribe: ecotonemagazine.org/poetry/revel... ‎ @Sulovelit.bsky.social #Ecotone #TheMoonIssue #LitMagLove

From “Revelation of the Porpoise,” by Su Love in Ecotone 37 🌕 “O! Allsound, inrush, rip-sweep, erupting– / I lost the count–blazestar music hurling...” Read the full poem + subscribe: ecotonemagazine.org/poetry/revel... ‎ @Sulovelit.bsky.social #Ecotone #TheMoonIssue #LitMagLove

From “On the Verge,” by Catalina Ocampo Londoño in Ecotone 37 🌕 “Traveling through the Atacama Desert we drive into a lake of salt– / el salar, they call it: a white crust that some Frenchman called lunar...”

From “The Witch Dreams of Black Bulls,” by Lina Maria Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas in Ecotone 37 🌕 “Because it is a game of darts in the dark, an animal charging at full speed and a sword sliding through muscle and fur...”

From “The Moon Moves,” by Elissa Favero in Ecotone 37 🌕 “To bring home the far reaches of the universe, my father gathered and shaped the materials of this world.” Read the full essay + subscribe: ecotonemagazine.org/nonfiction/t... ‎ #Ecotone #TheMoonIssue #LitMagLove

From “Herb Robert, which I find growing on a walk after class,” by Jimmy Kindree in Ecotone 37 🌕 “Late fall, still here. / Five-lobed high-heel pink, and I, this / Late fall, still hear / You unsheathe a next seedhead spear...”

From “Eclipse,” by David Gessner in Ecotone 37 🌕 “Behind the gauzy image of pink rock, the sky was bruised a darker violet, marked by an even darker purple of tattered clouds sliced by slashes of orange.”

From “Missing Girl,” by Lauren Hohle in Ecotone 37 🌕 “Her face appeared on television and in the smudged ink of the morning newspaper, on the sweating cartons of milk served at Hannah’s school, and sometimes in Hannah’s dreams.”

From “Blessing for the End Times,” by Julia Bouwsma in Ecotone 37 🌕 “I need every unnamed pocked riverbed on every planet I’ll never visit // & some days I need to pretend I am a sweater woven of only a single / strand...”

From “December: Green in Winter: On Henry David Thoreau’s Kalendar,” by Kristen Case in Ecotone 37: “Though Thoreau had for many years been keeping lists and charts of individual observations of the natural world, ...” (CONTINUED)

From “Fall :: Viburnum,” by Katharine Whitcomb in Ecotone 37 🌕 “Before leaves lose their green, the season sighs a beat / in September, a pause, & once ferocious weeds / die back. Ripe tomatoes torch in dry foliage, drop seeds. . .”

From “The Dreams of a Descendant of Sirenuse: Works in Glass,” by Amber Cowan in Ecotone 37 🌕 “My almost coincidental discovery of a barrel of old cullet transformed into a passion for history and industry, and a new love affair with the material with which I was already in love.”

From “An Abundance of Os,” by Anna Lena Phillips Bell, in Ecotone 37 🌕 “It’s no exaggeration to say that I’ve been looking forward to this, Ecotone’s Moon Issue, for years—and I’m thankful to be able to share it with you at this moment, when that solace feels ever more needed.”

From “Bedtime Story for a Father,” by Alejandro Lucero: “Sweating through his shirt, the father, praying to soak his feet in ice, / praying the food in the fridge won’t spoil and the smell won’t attract more bugs, / eats like a dog in the dark.” ecotonemagazine.org/poetry/bedti...

From “An Amateur Malacologist Recalls His Mother’s Stories about the Tree Snail’s Song,” by Derek Otsuji in Ecotone 37 🌕: “And tell me of the song / Of the snails whose shells sound—long— / Who filled the forests but then fled.” Read the poem + subscribe: ecotonemagazine.org/poetry/an-am...

From “Firefly Ode” by Jason Gray in Ecotone 37 🌕: “As the sky turned down, I made my trespass / Into their constellation. The air unbound / The hundred lanterns.” Read the full piece + subscribe: ecotonemagazine.org/poetry/firef... @drunkasapoet.bsky.social #Ecotone #TheMoonIssue

From “Solo,” by Susan McLean in Ecotone 37 🌕: “O mono-Moon, / who throws cold frowns on fools who woo, / O mono-Moon, / no cotton wool nor soft cocoon . . .” Read the full poem + subscribe: ecotonemagazine.org/poetry/solo/ ‎ #Ecotone #TheMoonIssue #LitMagLove

Excited to have one of my strange Psalms in the new issue of Ecotone. Thanks especially for the push towards the French repeating forms! ( Roundeau here...) ecotonemagazine.org/poetry/73-so...

From “73 (Song, with Wrens’ Wings),” by Nathaniel Perry in Ecotone 37 🌕: “Whenever they sin // they feel alright about it. They do not start / everything over.” Read the full poem + subscribe: ecotonemagazine.org/poetry/73-so... @longrules.bsky.social #Ecotone #TheMoonIssue #LitMagLove

From “Ma Barker Floats Across Lake Weir,” by Keri Miller in Ecotone 37 🌕: “Morning again. Another morning. A storm darkens in the east. Palmettos whip in the wind, clumps of Spanish moss drop to the ground like dead squirrels, and the old house shivers. Ma feels the pressure build, then drop.”

From “Pancake Ode” by Molly Peacock in Ecotone 37 🌕: “What makes me so alive I eat / a buckwheat disc with a crispy edge?” Read the full poem + subscribe: ecotonemagazine.org/poetry/panca... #Ecotone #TheMoonIssue #LitMagLove

Our first story is “Non-erotic Space Fantasy,” by Lee Conell @leeconell. “Imagine hosting, within your own body, a constellation of small glowing creatures, holding them so close that you yourself resemble starlight reflecting on water.” ecotonemagazine.org/fiction/non-...

Issue 37 will reach mailboxes soon, and we’re so excited to share it with you! We’ll be opening access to work from the issue online for your reading pleasure. Follow along to share your favorites!

Check out Michael Torres’s “Poem to be Read Aloud at My Funeral Facing South” which is free to read online for the next two weeks! ecotonemagazine.org/poetry/poema... ‎

Mark S Bailen’s short story “Bears Discover Time Travel” is free to read online for the next two weeks! ecotonemagazine.org/fiction/bear... @marksbailen.bsky.social

For the next two weeks “Moraine” from Anne Haven McDonnel is free to read online! ecotonemagazine.org/poetry/morai...

Check out Annie Sand’s new essay in Issue 36! For the next two weeks “Who Watched the Water Rise” is free to read online! ecotonemagazine.org/nonfiction/w... ‎ anniesand.bsky.social

Check out John Poch’s new poem in Issue 36. For the next two weeks “The Sheet and the Knot” is free to read online! ecotonemagazine.org/poetry/the-s...

Jessica C. White’s art feature “The Dark Sea” is free to engage with online for the next two weeks at the link below! ecotonemagazine.org/art/the-dark... @jessicacwhite.bsky.social

Check out the poem “You Send a Glass Eye Across the Page” by Debra Bruce, which is free to read online for the next two weeks! ecotonemagazine.org/poetry/you-s...

Check out Jenn Scheck-Kahn's essay on “Coyotes” published in Issue 36. The essay is free to read for the next two weeks! ecotonemagazine.org/nonfiction/c...

@aimeenoel.bsky.social’s poem “Bless the Water” is free to read online for the next two weeks! ecotonemagazine.org/poetry/bless...

Check out Katie Hartsock’s poem “The Legend of the Bluebonnet” which is free to read online for the next two weeks. ecotonemagazine.org/poetry/the-l... ‎

Allya Yourish’s poem “Desert Hedonism” which is published in Issue 36, is free to read online for the next two weeks! ecotonemagazine.org/poetry/deser...

Check out Genevieve Abravanel’s short story “Bananas, Sweetheart” from Issue 36, which is free to read online for the next two weeks! ecotonemagazine.org/fiction/bana... @gen3ea.bsky.social

Check out Jane Satterfield’s poem “Postcards from the Anthropocene” in Issue 36, which is free to read online for the next two weeks! ecotonemagazine.org/poetry/postc...

Check out Laurel Anderson’s new poem “Ransom Note” in Issue 36! For the next two weeks “Ransom Note” is free to read online! ecotonemagazine.org/poetry/ranso... @laurelscipoet.bsky.social

David’s essay “Two Borders” from Issue 36 is free to read on our website. Enjoy! ecotonemagazine.org/out-of-place...

Check out Chloe Garcia Roberts’s essay in Issue 36! For the next two weeks, “Timesmiths Assemble” is free to read online! ecotonemagazine.org/nonfiction/t...