BOOKS Gift Ecology RICHARD SCHIFFMAN In order to understand the debt that we owe to the natural world, Robin Wall Kimmerer recommends berry picking, one of humanity’s older and most quietly...
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POETRY MORNING’S DOVE Richard Schiffman We call it a mourning dove, a misnomer, as if its placid call were plaintive, as if it shared our plumbless ache of loss. But hereabouts it’s simply...
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POETRY NEST Richard Schiffman I cupped the nest as Rembrandt’s Aristotle
held the bust of Homer and thought
of all those restless flights to ferry twigs
and blades of grass and scraps of...
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POETRY THE HERMIT RETURNS Richard Schiffman Days before the lame-duck hermit left, the trees withdrew into their caverned carapace of bark. The clouds gazed down aloofly, shrugged, the...
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Short Take Richard Schiffman In Defense of Organic Farming Less than a cure-all, more than a fad In September, Stanford University’s Center for Health Policy released a controversial report...
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TREE OF LIFE Between the devil and the deep blue sea— a tree, its branches whorled to snag the spinner sun mid-flight and glean from day's glazed bowl of light a skein of sugars for its...
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