“July Morning, 2020”: An Interlude with Michelle Cacho-Negrete.
Sometimes it might seem we’ll be okay after all. “… some little part of me prays that we can hold on to the beauty and love in the world before it’s all vanished …” July Morning, 2020 The Scarborough Marsh at six o’clock this morning, our daily bike ride’s preferred time, is peace incarnate. Yesterday’s thunderstorms cleared the...
“A Curious Migration”: on human virtue and the precarious survival of the monarch butterfly. An essay by Mary Quade.
“A monarch butterfly is a small being, less than the size and weight of a Post-it note. The monarch butterfly phenomenon, however, is enormously heavy….” Monarch butterflies cluster on oyamel Cerro Pelon, Mexico. Photo by the author. This feature is also available, in slightly different format, on Medium. From “Rivals & Players,” Broad Street‘s Winter 2019 issue....
Share This Poem: “Compensation,” by C. Wade Bentley. From “Rivals & Players.”
“… they punched clean through cambium laths and drywall bark, leaving the home open to wind now that would chill the eggs….” BROAD STREET presents a broadside from our Winter/Spring 2019 issue, “Rivals & Players.” Drag the image to your desktop to blow it up, print, or read–or scroll down to enjoy in plain text. Compensation...
Share This Poem: “Idyll,” by Jed Myers.
“The jay looks out for others’ hungers — glints in the groundcover, flits in the canopy …” BROAD STREET presents a poem from our Winter 2019 “Rivals & Players” issue. To enjoy it as a broadside, drag to your desktop, where you can enlarge it and print it. Or simply scroll down to read in plain text. Idyll A...
