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The Layout descent starts gradually, two ravens caw Fossil Lake against gray skies falls into trickling down, snow creates East Rosebud Creek

1. Treasure On a Friday afternoon in June, my eldest son and I search for treasure on the shores of Lake Erie.

We bury my grandfather in a hillside cemetery outside Atlanta. It is July 2020. Throughout the brief ceremony, elongated with heat, we

They buzz me all the time, like fighter jet pilots. There is a pattern to it, routine. First, they notice the wood

On most mornings in the salt marshes of Hempstead Bay, interlocking islands of emerald grasses flower with life. Egrets inscribe the marshland

“During weather like this you can hear the corn growing,” Grandma Nila says, her elbow resting on the open window as she

Katy Gurin (she/her) earned a B.S. in Environmental Engineering from Humboldt State University in 2011 and an MFA in poetry from UC

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Julie Swarstad Johnson is the author of Pennsylvania Furnace (Unicorn Press, 2019) and co-editor of Beyond Earth's Edge: The Poetry of Spaceflight

A NATURAL HISTORY OF GAY LOVE Knowing our land used to rest deep down, south of Florida, long before Google street view,