While we the living, not sleeping, move through days of snow and cloud, rain and fog, the willow stems lie dormant, perhaps dreaming, or perhaps only sleeping. Listening to the rill of the river ...
On the ground, my encounters with the habituated mother bear of yearling cubs were becoming increasingly tense. We were both ...
IMAGINE, IF YOU WILL, a bird with an obsidian black body, ebony dark as a night sky; an almost iridescent star-burnt plumage emboldened by a bolt of white lightning running from mouth to tail, and a ...
A CATFISH WITH THREE EYES lived in the Gowanus Canal. I can say this with confidence because I have seen the evidence. The catfish was shiny and pitch-dark. After a fisherman hooked it and reeled it ...
"This wide lawn is woven with sleeping addicts. / The Cloisters are empty of men." ...
LAST YEAR I RETURNED TO El Oasis, a Rarámuri community at the edge of Chihuahua City in northern Mexico, where I once lived while conducting fieldwork. This time I came not as a researcher but as a ...
BIGFOOT ISN’T REAL, but black bears are—that’s the subtext of a recent study by Dr. Floe Foxon mapping bear populations relative to cryptid sightings. That study, published in 2024, sparked my ...
"There is no single way to grieve / the world, any more than there is some sure / way to praise it." ...
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the only goat you find in me—the one of scape.
WHAT DIFFERENTIATES THE CRYPTID from other monsters is that cryptids come with reports of local sightings. Unlike the unicorn—representations of which are known to be totally fantastical—the cryptid ...
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