~Click images above to enlarge.~ Jake Nixon first looked through a camera during a backpacking trip in 2014. He was instantly hooked and took more than 2,000 photos on the 11-day trip. Photography quickly became the preferred method for Jake to share the beauty [...]
Ask Grief “…having perceived you as [one] who is ‘a greater myself’…” —Teilhard de Chardin I do learn to free the things winging into the cage of me. When the pink morning makes the orange trees blaze, there is no saying no to something that holds that [...]
On some sort of edgeby Izze M-K in the bathouse at midnight alone becoming black oil shadowed against the (dark blue) the sun was tempered in a net downtown(dark blue) somehow again it is morning and the newly vapored sun has slipped through i rise and flap [...]
Terrariumby Sam Anderson What I resent you for most, Giant, is not ripping me away from my family. It’s not the fading rations I find in these impossible crystal walls. It is not the insistent pounding of great grubby fingers that vibrate into my core. No, Giant. It is the robbery of [...]
from Avenueby Chris Holdaway At the risk of reality: the plaster sky is crashing down. Roads delirious with their own markings and the event horizon of train tracks running out of sight splits earth with the silence of vision. The dreams of private cathedrals arrive at crossroads and [...]
Power of Coldby Ian Cotter The most beautiful and the most painful experiences I’ve ever had as a human being have taken place in the wilderness. Backpacking and hiking, I’ve found, have the remarkable capacity to crush your spirit and rebuild it again, in the same fatal blow. One such time [...]
Willkómmen to Cascadiaby Sean Stiny Cutting a trail through a light snow, mashing the leaves under our boots into a russet porridge, we made haste up the closed campground road and reached the trailhead in the lee of the mountain. On approach, a flash of gold lit up the hillside. Then another. [...]
Self-Portrait from Sherburne, NYby Erin Lutz I avoid wearing skirts, shorts, anything that shows off the legs that I let get so pale in fear of ticks, mosquitos, anything with mouthparts meant to bite me and my extremities. I’m not too keen on bug spray. So I don my baggy blue jeans, [...]
Adjusting Sailsby Abbey Leibert Water is a universal solvent. I will not be left unresolved. I can be free, let the water flow. Worry like a ship stuck in a bottle kept in check by myribcage. The water rises, competing with an ascending airplane. My lungs contract, masts crack under pressure.The water [...]
Polarityby Gabriella Pereira Oh it’s you again. Stranger from the bus with the orange pom-pom hat, like the one I saw in that store on Marshall that went under. Stand with me, won’t you? There are six minutes and a connection to be shared. Did you see the beauty in the bus [...]
