Sunday Focus: Earth, Released

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.]

 

 

O, Earth, bereft of your brood of shepherds, you now revive. Your first-parents’ depopulated temples revolt against their origins, now bob as hulls on this unmeasured map. Trees grow adventurous in the fatal air, unfouled. The disease removed, their anger breaks, like the steep waves caressing limbs and weathered trunks. O, Earth! You no longer mourn at dawn, no longer pray to get even at dusk, no longer blow breaths in vain. Triple-colored bows adorn the present. For the albatross and other islanders, the preserved sylvan grove shines as the fairest flame.

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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
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