Oakwood Rambles
"I pause here only to gather my thoughts, but I am surprised at how much I have already observed."
The Naturalist’s Dilemma
Staring at blank faces while I speak / they’re like walls, plain and blank and even without interest; / now I’m frustrated and careless but flabbergasted nonetheless / as my tone it gets higher, the pace, it gets faster
Vectors of Understanding
I am content to know/ The protecting embrace of a maple/ Shielding me/ From harsh January winds/
Against Ourselves
After the Ides of March, four hundred / thousand pure casualties. / Darkness stole the glossy white pearl / Icy tundra untainted, solitary.
The Story Tree
“What is it about our need to tell stories, to leave a relic of our voice behind for the world? We speak, but sounds dissipate into the air, ephemeral as our own lives.”
The I Am
You ARE a moment/ you are a mystery/ blooming into infinity
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Unearthed is an online literary magazine published by the Writing Program at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry.We ask that submissions be previously unpublished and for first North American serial rights. Copyright would then revert to the author upon publication. We also ask that when the work is published again a credit line indicate that the [...]
Lingering Wires
"But she doesn’t lie still, she continues to thrash and moan, spraying blood across the ground and staining the foam at her mouth red."
Handcrafted
"The land didn’t take my grandfather away from me. My grandfather gave his life to taking care of the land and passed this relationship on to each of his grandchildren."
Teach Your Children Well
"Unfortunately, we may have been among the last to feel the earth between our toes, to lie beneath the sun-rayed canopy, and remember to 'be home before dark.'"