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Wesleyan's Environmental Arts Magazine

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loamfall 2014

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Alison Znamierowski ‘15

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Editors’ Note................................................................................................................................3Artist Statement: Joseph Smolinski.............................................................................................5The Blind Beekeeper by Nick Martino.......................................................................................83URßOH��'DQGDUD�&DWHWH�����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Autumn Leaves by Alison Znanmierowski...............................................................................14(DWLQJ�/RFDO��$Q�,QWHUYLHZ�ZLWK�'DQLHOOH�3UXLWW�DQG�-D[LH�)ULHGPDQ�������������������������������������Rick by Nicole Stanton...............................................................................................................21The March by Morgan Hill.......................................................................................................283HRSOH��7KHLU�3ODQWV�E\�6LHQQD�&RXUWHU�DQG�1LFROH�6WDQWRQ��������������������������������������������������$�'UHDP�E\�1RHOOH�+LDP������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������3URßOH��*HQQD�'H*URRW����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Mary & Moon by Kate Weiner..................................................................................................45

Artwork by Brandon Ho, Rick Manayan, Joey Strella, Matilda Ostow, Melissa Joskow, 1LFROH�6WDQWRQ��=LD�*URVVPDQ�9HQGULOOR��$OLVRQ�=QDPLHURZVNL��/L]]\�(OOLRWW��

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PapayaKate Weiner ‘15

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loam editorial staff=LD�*URVVPDQ�9HQGULOOR6LHQQD�&RXUWHUNoelle HiamMelissa JoskowNicole StantonElijah StevensKate Weiner

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welcome to loam.

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welcome to loam.

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animals tagged with radio tracking devices. These monitored animals range from

endangered species, animals considered game, and invasive species. Increasingly the

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concerning surveillance and information privacy.

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Joseph Smolinski

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the blind beekeeper

nick martino

in the ringing copper kiln

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and husks and husks of paper shells

of seedpods hotly clattering

much is revealed to rescue the heart

that visionary apparatus. in colonies

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to gladful loam

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the cosmos vivid, between the folds

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gold spear, a clever goldenrod

of cotton beaming frothed by blond

winging droplets, livid glyphs

that live inside a hollow

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of whispering prisms and valves

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glisten with resinous propolis. as you

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grip something earthen, iron, cold,

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sending across chambers

the pulp in your eyes

in the palm of her hand

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couldn’t quite shake the image of the melting couple. As their soap skins wore away, their

underlying frames poked through. The sense of reemergence—of loss transitioning into

new—was palpable.

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process where I don’t like new stuff because it has so much less history and character in

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score a free bed. And for the installation shown at left, she worked with used furniture to

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Nicole Stanton ‘15

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Keelung, TaiwanBrandon Ho ‘18

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autumn leaves

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the leaves that soaked up our

spring (lust,love,loss)

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effortlessly falling to the ground or

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to become dirt and dust

(the ground on which we walk)

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(the spring before)

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During a span of thirty days stretching from October to November, Danielle Pruitt and Jaxie

Friedman, both Environmental Studies majors and passionate advocates for food justice,

will be going 100% local: that means everything they eat and drink must be grown within

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be it conversations with nearby farmers or cooking with friends. Below, Danielle and Jaxie

graciously share with us the details of their incredible documentary, from the challenges of

eating local to the amazing projects at play in Middletown to the moonshine made from

N.Y. corn that you can snag at Metro.

On the project and planning:

Danielle: :HÖUH�PDNLQJ�D�GRFXPHQWDU\�RQ�RXU�H[SHULHQFHV�HDWLQJ�D�FRPSOHWHO\�ORFDOO\�������VRXUFHG�GLHW�for thirty days and we’re visiting most of the food sources. The project manifested this summer when I knew ,�ZDQWHG�WR�PDNH�D�GRFXPHQWDU\�IRU�P\�WKHVLV�DQG�,�ZDWFKHG�WKLV�PRYLH��Ø9HJXFDWHG�Ù�ZKHUH�WKH\�JHW�UDQ�dom people to be vegans for a month and I was inspired by that and then I was thinking fast food has been GRQH��YHJDQ�IRRG�KDV�EHHQ�GRQH��ZKDW�DERXW�HDWLQJ�ORFDO"�,V�WKDW�SRVVLEOH"�$QG�REYLRXVO\�WKLV�LV�D�KXJH�XQ�dertaking so I was thinking which one of my friends can take on a project like this and be really committed WR�LW�DQG�-D[LH�ZDV�P\�ßUVW�WKRXJKW�

Jaxie: ,WÖV�IXQQ\�'DQLHOOH�PHQWLRQHG�Ø9HJXFDWHG�Ù�EHFDXVH�WKLV�VXPPHU�,�KDG�JRWWHQ�LQWR�WKH�GRFXPHQWD�U\�SKUDVH��ORRNLQJ�DW�DOO�RI�WKHVH�GLIIHUHQW�GRFXPHQWDULHV�DERXW�YDULRXV�IRRG�V\VWHPV�LVVXHV����Ø9HJXFDWHG�Ù�Ø)RRG�,QF��Ù����7KLV�VXPPHU��,�ZDV�LQ�0RQWDQD�DQG�OLYLQJ�RQ�P\�RZQ�DQG�JHWWLQJ�WKH�PDMRULW\�RI�P\�IRRG�IURP�ORFDO�IDUPHUV�PDUNHWV��6R�,�KDG�DOUHDG\�JRW�VRPH�H[SHULHQFH��QRW�HDWLQJ������ORFDO��EXW�,ÖYH�DOZD\V�liked visiting farmers markets and trying to get as much as I can, and this summer was a big stepping stone LQ�WU\LQJ�WR�GR�WKDW�RQ�P\�RZQ��6R�ZKHQ�'DQLHOOH�VXJJHVWHG�LW�,�ZDV�VR�LQ��,ÖYH�ZRUNHG�RQ�/RQJ�/DQH�2UJDQLF�)DUP�EHIRUH�DQG�ZLWK�0LGGOHWRZQ�8UEDQ�*DUGHQ�GRLQJ�VRPH�GLIIHUHQW�JDUGHQLQJ�SURMHFWV�VR�,ÖYH�DOZD\V�FDUHG�DERXW�VXVWDLQDEOH�DJULFXOWXUH�DQG�,�ZDV�H[FLWHG�E\�WKH�LGHD�RI�WDNLQJ�LW�WR�D�ZKROH�QHZ�OHYHO��

On preparing for their thirty day challenge:

Danielle: We got a lot of food in advance. We’ve been doing research for the last month about where to get things and last night we made a hug tub of tomato sauce and squash soup and vegetable broth and we’re IUHH]LQJ�WKDW�VWXII��7KHUH�LV�WKLV�UHDOO\�DPD]LQJ�ZHEVLWH�&7�)DUP�)UHVK�WKDW�GHOLYHUV�IDUP�IUHVK�SURGXFH�WR�your door and we will be getting a lot of our produce from them. We’ll be ordering from then on a biweekly EDVLV�DQG�PD\EH�JRLQJWR�WKH�)DUPHUV�0DUNHW�VRPH�PRUH���

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Jaxie: Based on this time of year, there are certain things you need to get. We got big things of blueberries DQG�UDVSEHUULHV�IURP�5RVHÖV�%HUU\�)DUP�WKDW�ZH�IUR]H�LQ�SUHSDUDWLRQ�IRU�WKH�VHDVRQ��%XW�LWÖV�D�ELJ�VTXDVK�DQG�gourd time of year so that we don’t need to get in advance whereas the greens we’re getting we’ll have to get every week or two weeks because they just go bad too quickly. We’re going to prepare some things in ad�YDQFH�EXW�LWÖV�JRLQJ�WR�EH�D�ORW�RI�SUHWW\�VLPSOH�IRRGV��5RDVWHG�VTXDVK�RQ�VRPH�JUHHQV��ORWV�RI�FKHHVH��

Danielle: 1R�EUHDG�RU�SDVWD�

Jaxie:�:H�GLG�MXVW�ßQG�VRPH�àRXU��7KDW�ZDV�D�UHFHQW�GHYHORSPHQW��:KHWKHU�ZH�KDYH�WKH�WLPH�WR�PDNH�LW�will be a question. We haven’t been able to make a starter for yeast which would’ve been required.

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Jaxie: My thesis is looking at the healing power of food and using a locally sourced diet to heal the environ�ment and to heal humans. Because with processed food, you’ve got a lot of major health issues coming up in America today, so [my thesis is about] looking at the potential [of different consumption patterns] to heal, QRW�KHDO���LWÖV�DERXW�DQDO\]LQJ�WKH�KHDOWK�FRQFHUQV�UHODWHG�WR�JRLQJ�ORFDO��:HÖUH�UHDOO\�OXFN\��(YHU\RQH�KDV�EHHQ�VXSHU�VXSSRUWLYH��:KHQ�,�ßUVW�EURXJKW�WKLV�LGHD�XS�WR�3URIHVVRU�5RXVH��ZKR�LV�WKH�KHDG�RI�WKH�6FL�ence in Society Program, it was not even in my realm of consciousness [that he would approve this idea for my thesis]. I honestly thought it was going to get shut down right away, and he was super supportive. He WKRXJKW�WKDW�LW�ZRXOG�EH�D�JUHDW�H[SORUDWLRQ�RI�KRZ�WKHUH�DUH�VR�PDQ\�GLHW�IDGV�WKDW�KDSSHQ�WRGD\��DQG�D�ORW�of people write about them don’t necessarily take it into practice. Our thirty day challenge is creating a way for me to take my theoretical thesis and make it more concrete in reality.

Danielle:�:HÖUH�DOVR�UHDOO\�OXFN\�EHFDXVH�WKH�&ROOHJH�RI�WKH�(QYLURQPHQW�LV�VXSHU�LQWR�LQWHUGLVFLSOLQDU\�SURMHFWV�OLNH�WKLV�VR�ZKHQ�,�ßUVW�WROG�%DUU\�>&KHUQRII@�DERXW�WKLV��KH�ZDV�VR�JXQJ�KR�DQG�WKDWÖV�SDUW�RI�ZKDW�PDNHV�WKLV�SURMHFW�VR�IXQ��(YHU\RQH�LV�OLNH��ØJR�IRU�LW�Ù�

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Jaxie: Especially because there is a distinction between eating locally grown and locally made products. A lot of products that are manufactured and marketed as local, you don’t necessarily know where the ingredi�HQWV�DUH�DFWXDOO\�FRPLQJ�IURP��7KDWÖV�EHHQ�RQH�RI�RXU�PDMRU�GLIßFXOWLHV�

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Danielle: >:LWK@�WKH�VWXII�WKDW�ZH�KDYH�EHHQ�ßQGLQJ��WKH�ODEHOV�DUH�VR�PLVJXLGLQJ��,W�VD\V�ØORFDO�SURGXFW�Ù�EXW�ZKHQ�\RX�ORRN�DW�LW��WKH\�JHW�WKHLU�PDLQ�VRXUFH�IURP�2UHJRQ��7KH\�DGYHUWLVH�LW�DV�ØORFDO�Ù�EXW�PD\EH�RQO\�one factor of it is local and the rest is outsourced. That comes from people not being that curious and asking. -D[LH�WKLV�ZHHNHQG�ZHQW�WR�D�ORFDO�IRRG�VWRUH�DQG�DVNHG�WKHP�DOO�WKHVH�TXHVWLRQV�DERXW�WKH�IRRG�DQG�WKH\�GLGQÖW�H[SHFW�LW��7KH\�ZHUH�H[FLWHG�WR�DQVZHU�WKH�TXHVWLRQV�EXW�WKH\�GLGQÖW�H[SHFW�WR�EH�DVNHG��/LNH��ØZRZ��\RX�DFWXDOO\�FDUH�Ù

Jaxie: 0HDQZKLOH��WKH�WRZQ�,�ZDV�LQ�KDG�QR�VHUYLFH��MXVW�HQRXJK�IRU�PH�WR�WDON�WR�'DQLHOOH�RQ�WKH�SKRQH��,ÖP�trying to look up the location of these places that are labeled and manufactured and I can’t actually get it to JR�WKURXJK�VR�'DQLHOOH�LV�RQ�WKH�RWKHU�HQG�ORRNLQJ�XS�WKH�GLVWDQFH�IURP�:HVOH\DQ���

Danielle: :HÖUH�GHßQLQJ�ORFDO��E\�WKH�ZD\��DV�����PLOHV�IURP�FDPSXV��

Jaxie: 2QH�RWKHU�WKLQJ�WKDW�KDV�EHHQ�LQWHUHVWLQJ�LV�WKDW�ZH�GR�ßQG�WKRVH�JHPV�RI�SHRSOH�ZKR�DUH�UHDOO\�VXSSRUWLQJ�WKH�ORFDO�PRYHPHQW��)RU�LQVWDQFH��ZH�UHFHQWO\�IRXQG�WKLV�ZRPDQ�ZKR�JURZV�KHU�RZQ�KHUEV�DQG�she really tries to grow everything in her own garden, but even in that case, she was talking about how her parsley and cilantro didn’t grow very well this year so all of her dried herb blends she makes she had to RXWVRXUFH�WR�JHW�LW��6KH�KDSSHQHG�WR�ßQG�WKLV�FRPSDQ\�LQ�2UHJRQ�WKDW�VKHÖV�WDONHG�ZLWK�JUHDWO\�DQG�WKH\�produce their stuff in an incredibly sustainable and ethical way, but it’s interesting because you don’t really WKLQN�DERXW�WKH�IDFW�WKDW�>ORFDO@�LV�FRPSOLFDWHG��(YHQ�LI�\RX�ZDQW�WR�EH�HDWLQJ�RU�JURZLQJ������ORFDOO\��\RX�can’t always do that.

On farming and food:

Danielle:�:HÖYH�YLVLWHG�%HOWDQH�)DUP��WKH\�VXSSO\�>:HVOH\DQÖV@�FKHHVH�FR�RS��:HÖYH�YLVLWHG�5RVHÖV�%HUU\�)DUP��VKH�VSHFLDOL]HV�LQ�UDVSEHUULHV��EOXHEHUULHV���

Jaxie:�6KHÖV�DOVR�LQ�WKH�)DUPHUVÖ�0DUNHW�LQ�0LGGOHWRZQ��$QG�ZHÖYH�YLVLWHG�*HRUJH�+DOO�)DUP��DQ�RUJDQLF�farm. Our other sources haven’t been organic. We’re trying to visit different kinds of farms to see what is LPSRUWDQW��2UJDQLF�DQG�*02V�DUH�LPSRUWDQW�TXHVWLRQV�WKDW�DUH�FRPLQJ�XS�D�ORW�LQ�RXU�SURMHFW��:KHUH�ZH�stand on that is to be decided. Because it’s interesting, when you are talking to the farmers themselves, you know they have a really deep relationship, and sometimes, sustainability just isn’t really practical...

Danielle:�$QG�WKH\�DOO�KDYH�VXFK�GLIIHUHQW�YLHZV�RQ�IRRG��/LNH�*HRUJH�+DOO��WKH�RUJDQLF�ORFDO�IDUPHU��ZDV�DOO�about how he only eats from his garden. It’s healthy...

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Jaxie: And someone in his family had had cancer, so they were trying to make sure he eats a lot of greens and things that are good at building up your body’s immune system.

On eating local:

Jaxie: Everyone has been supportive of going local to different degrees and in every instance we’ve talked WR�>WKH�IDUPHUV@�LQ�PRUH�GHWDLOÔZH�DVN�WKHP�LI�WKH\�JR�WR�VXSHUPDUNHWV��LI�WKH\�HDW������ORFDOO\ÔDQG�QRQH�RI�WKHP�KDYH�VDLG�\HV��$OO�RI�WKHP�KDYH�JRQH�WR�VXSHUPDUNHWV��QRW�DOO�HDW������ORFDOO\��

Danielle: It’s interesting that all farmers have different perspectives on the things that they grow and what the level of intake of what they grow should be. My assumption going [into this project] was that all farmers ate from the farm.

Jaxie: One of the things that I think is most interesting is the fact that money really does play into [eating ORFDO@�D�ORW��(YHQ�WKH�IDUPHUV�WKHPVHOYHV��3DXO�IURP�%HOWDQH�)DUP�ZDV�WDONLQJ�DERXW�KRZ�KLV�KXVEDQG�UHDOO\�loves yogurt and they sometimes have to get yogurt from the supermarket because their own yogurt is too H[SHQVLYH�DQG�WKH\�MXVW�FDQÖW�HDW�DV�PXFK�RI�WKHLU�\RJXUW�DV�KH�QRUPDOO\�ZRXOG��7KDW�ZDV�D�UHDOO\�LQWHUHVWLQJ�point. To consider the fact that the income from farming doesn’t even allow you to fully consumer your own goods.

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Jaxie: There was a girl who was saying she hated just about every vegetable and then I had her try some arugula and she loved it. I couldn’t believe it. Arugula is kind of spicy, a little bit bitter...

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ricknicole stanton

We met a man plucking tins out of bins under layers of leftovers. The crowd wasn’t doing it right.

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sound of sinking. Maybe it’s for the sight of water resisting displacement

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liquids.

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the march

morgan hill

I don’t recall spilling onto 5th avenue. A day of staying standing dissolves one’s

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obdurate; a huge tenor of fatalism, a mass of raw indictments and a grave sense of

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communing for causes and marching out our collusions toward an arbitrary point of mutual

dispersion. A spilling out of gallons of urine and cash into the lower districts of steely habit.

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with iron escorted us from east to west. The reservoir felt blessed as I walked with my

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kinds of weather, but its timbre was still doused in busking opera singers and the stupefying

absence of swans. The air was warm and dank. I dressed too much for it, so we paused at

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sunrise toward the phlegmatic underground we went to protest that precise distinction and

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Mostly, I saw old friends. People I knew before they moved to New York, now

having moved to New York. Each recollection was a study in subtly feigned coincidence. A

boy who always wears sweaters was wearing a sweater. A girl was happy when I remembered

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brownstone among strollers. I had a second serendipitous encounter with a man I know just

now come home from years in Thailand. A friend I would have slept with was busy at a

wedding. My housemate was away with a separatist faction. A beloved professor strolled

with her Jesuit friends. My brother and his boyfriend were in their shared apartment,

demurely uptown.

On park west, our faces were damp and tall. The students met between two blocks.

A man was handing out gummy symbols of birds to paint on our arms, or the copper cheeks

of my companion and mine in the heat. A shock of deep orange in denim is our beacon.

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our most renewable energy. The having and losing of friends in a crowd rolls out and back

like tides, this moonish pride as yet unharnessed by the world’s most major ports. The

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print. I saw no celebrities in person.

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its ruse. One cannot attend without participating. Still, I went to see it. To hang out with

girls and emote throughout the gathering. To feel righteously undergraduate, to hear the

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that single, undeniable resonance: periodically, in a manner that implicated but seemed to

lack the instruction of surveillance, a hush would fall around us. A fully aware quiet. Then

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of buildings. Loosing out our cynicism, drawing out our proud yells for that ripple in the

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Kate and Abby, curled up with Kate’s succulents

Matilda takes care of her baby aloe and heartleaf

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Noname, Moroccan kitten, at home with her house plants

Jackie with her lovely purple shamrock

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Jason chills with some chives and oregano

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How does your plant make you feel?

Jackie: I feel comforted, like I’m not alone. Bonnie rode with me across the country on a road trip. She was my companion. We’ve been through a lot together. We keep each other alive.

When did you meet your plant?

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How do you tend to it?

Rosy: I give it an apologetic smile every morning when I leave for work. I’ve watered it a few times.

What are three adjectives to describe your plant?

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If you were a plant, what type of plant would you be?

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When did you meet your plant?

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How do you tend to it?

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a dream

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,�IHOO�LQWR�D�àRZHUher stamen tickle my

eyelashes and the napeof my neck

and the space betweena smell and sight.

Each of her cells becomes my sunand when it rains

I am safe.I’m not sure if I would rather

See from the insideor out.

This morning I am tallDV�WDOO�DV�WKH�WLQLHVW�àRZHUon the highest mountain.'DZQ�KDV�FRPH�DQG

She left her trail of beadssoon dispersed by thewind of our bare soles.

It is morning and I am ready for youto remove the scaffolding

from around my bodymy limbs are stiff andI have been building

a webMy legs stickyAnd glistening,I am spinning

Once I have stretchedto begin my walk.

I look back and aroundand mostly down but

also upand

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in our hive.Hiding out until

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7KHQ��ZDWFK�PH�àRDWeveryone knows,

smoke is our panacea

* If trying to sleep or otherwise,please remember this noise

that I’m making is notfor you.

this noise is the vibrationof one hundred parts

working as one.

as I fall deeperthe stem is my chamber,

àHVK\��FRRO��GDPSglistening,

And spinning.vibrating with the

gentle inchingof summertime growth,

if we were stemsI would be herbaceous and you

woodyOr,

perhaps the other way around.

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where everything grows out from thecenter

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and the soundgolden and dripping

trains passing inand out

through this dream.

a dream:I awake with visions of your hands

your hands orthat old man of the woods.

your hands dusted in sporesspreading

seeds of a species

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that is not and never will beyour own.

and when we emerge from the foliageVQDSSLQJ�QHHGOHV��WKH�àDSSLQJ�RI�RQH�VPDOO

WR�PHGLXP�VL]HG�VHW�RI�ZLQJV�and that rusted piece of wire fencing,

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breathing and then

It is nighttime andI am not quite certain

what has become of the morning.When it rises

with your hands, the wet,and that old dog we

feed sometimesTry not to mistake our

freshly watereddimensions, even though

they are volatile,mercurial

and pulsing as one.

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environment with our desire to enact meaningful change. Her thesis will be a series of

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related graphic design. Her artistic vision is an incredible step in making hard facts

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understand things in this very reductionist way where we approach information in its parts—

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devise sustainable solutions.

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Cajon del MaipoKate Weiner ‘15

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mary & moon

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Mary serves us tomatoes from her garden and black beans leftover from last night.9LUJLQLD�:RROI�LV�her chicken;/\GLD�'DYLV��VKH�VD\V��GLHG�UHFHQWO\��No eggs left to lay.

6RPH�VPDOO�VDGQHVV�LQ�WKH�WKLFN�RI�D�PLON\�ZDUPSeattle summer. Mostly joy.The hens still strutting across the deep green grass;WKH�\HOORZ�JROG�SHDU�WRPDWRHVthat have survived the perpetual blight.Lily remembers the old home.Batya remembers when her daughter still lived close by.

In the cold night we strip nakedand sink into the tub.:H�WDON�ßUVW�ORYHV�DQG�SHULRGV�DQG�ZKDW�LW�PHDQV�WR�EH�D�PRWKHU�how to be kind; how to forgive; how comecrying is its own kind of healing.

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if the chickens are chilly too.

If we are hot water and warm blood and moon bone and summer night and black beans and chicken feed and tomatoespicked (ripe) from the vine.

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