Sunday Focus: Sunny Side Up

Photo by Meg Boscov

[Editor’s Note: This ongoing Sunday feature pairs photographs from Meg Boscov with a thought (or two) from the managing editor about focusing on tiny things to find something significant. Click on the picture itself to view at full size.]

 

 

Some eggs for your Sunday morning brunch? Did you know that Oomancy, divination by eggs, was once widespread? According to Rachel Warren Chadd, “The white (albumen) of the egg would be dropped into water and various predictions would be made according to the shapes it formed.” In fact, Elizabeth Parris and Abigail Williams were just some of girls of Salem who practiced reading omens using an egg and a mirror (“Venus glass”).

 

“There’s a patch of old snow in a corner,” writes Robert Frost, “That I should have guessed / Was a blow-away paper the rain / Had brought to rest.” He is perhaps asking us to “read” Nature, if not for divination, at least for the news of the day. And what is this Sunday’s message? Go ahead. Read your eggs, your gardens, that pile of rain in the corner. And do tell us what it says.

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Meg Boscov is a photographer who lives and works outside of Philadelphia where she continues to pursue her careers in animal-assisted education and dog training. She can be reached on instagram at megboscov.

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Matter Press recently released titles from Meg Boscov, Abby Frucht, Robert McBrearty, Tori Bond, Kathy Fish, and Christopher Allen. Click here.

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Submissions

Poetry, creative nonfiction, and fiction/prose poetry submissions are now closed. The reading period for standard submissions opens again September 15, 2025. Submit here.

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09/15 • Abbie Doll
09/22 • Karen Regen Tuero
09/29 • Amy Speace
10/06 • Jennifer Edwards
10/13 • Joseph O’Day
10/20 • Carolyn Zaikowski
10/27 • Sunmisola Odusola
11/03 • Sara Cassidy
11/10 • Liz Abrams-Morley
11/17 • Alison Colwell
11/24 • Lucy Zhang
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