Sunday Focus: the moon considers the earth

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. This Sunday brings you a glimpse of an upcoming collaboration between Matter Press for Compressed Creative Arts and Meg Boscov that matches Meg’s photographs with prose poems that imagine the world after the humans are all gone. Click on the picture itself to view at full size.]

 

 

The moon shows Earth her same face, their spins synchronized, like the dials of the now lifeless timekeepers. Only the moon moderates the wobbly world, apogee, perigee, low tides high. The Earth keeps its distance, no lunar landings to examine the arid rubble. Billions of years ago, the molten moon floated into space; there will be no homecoming, except upon reflection in Earth’s shiny surface, satellite, sunlight, switch, switch, switch. No hours, weeks, months accumulate in the charcoal-gray of the present day. No mechanism crystallizes the tick tock: the moon pedals its cycles: new, waxing, quarter, gibbous, full, waning, last, crescent. This watered-down Earth only moonlights as a big body to its powdery partner. Long ago invisible particles collided to form change; now the results consider each other, widowed sisters, corona, dynamo, two alone.

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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.

Check out the write-up of the journal in The Writer.

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.

Upcoming

11/10 • Liz Abrams-Morley
11/17 • Alison Colwell
11/24 • Lucy Zhang
12/01 • Salvatore Difalco
12/08 • Rowan Tate
12/15 • Isabelle Ness
12/22 • Catherine Bai
12/29 • Stephan Viau
01/05 • Allison Blevins
01/12 • Bryn Kanar
01/19 • Yejun Chun
01/26 • TBD
02/02 • TBD
02/09 • TBD
02/16 • TBD
02/23 • TBD