Characteristic of a transition into autumn, our October issue highlights themes of quiet, contemplation, and solitude. In Janet M. Powers’ “Photographers Say Hello,” a
The cat’s brown coat, but not the tongue he licks it with. Winter light, a slick of simmering gray. A petal from the
In the bowl, cobalt-blue, you collect each spilled pebble, imposing order against his going. On the table, stacked just so— Mandelstam, Hopkins, Plath,
I am sick of the dialectic of hunter and prey, baiting traps with peanut butter while you find secret passageways inside my cupboards. What