Unearthed is an online literary magazine published by SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry and run by undergraduate student editors working in collaboration with the Writing Program and the Office of SUNY-ESF Communications staff. The journal focuses on works that define the environment as what Glen Mazis calls "surround"--the natural and social [...]
Irises, Watercolor Sarah Kirkpatrick, Environmental Biology Feathers Kiley Voss, Conservation Biology, Class 2019 Spring Heather Morris, Conservation Biology, Class of 2019 Morning Dew Heather Morris, Conservation Biology, Class of 2019 Trees Do Fall Zachary Smith, Environmental Studies, Class of 2017 [...]
For all the talk of warmth and rebirth, spring is a really ugly season. Trails turn to mud pits and roads to rivers as the thaw begins to take hold, and the brown carcasses of what was left at the end of fall begin to reappear. The ground cover is a layer of partially decayed leaves, and all the damage the winter did is slowly revealed.
White Wind / Frozen layering like ice sheets, / Yet wicked and swift, / It carves and scours its path.
Arcturus / Leader of the lucida in their nightly procession, / The key: receiver of lightning
Eurydice didn’t look quite so lost yesterday / as I passed the sculpture garden on the way to class.
An ice footprint stays / long after maker is gone / snowfall soon obscures.
Sometimes someone will drown in another part of the river and I can’t help, because the river is large and I am only one person.
The secondary rain shower / trickles from the leaves of the honey locust
2015 Archive Waterfall Olivia Pinner, Landscape Architecture, Class of 2018 Up a Tree Kiley Voss, Conservation Biology, Class of 2019 ESF Campus Sketch Savy Kep, Landscape Architecture, Class of 2017 Ranger School Reflections Thomas Eberl, Natural Resource Management, Class of 2017 Hands [...]
