Photos from the aftermath of the McDougall Creek wildfire of August 2023 by Andreas Rutkauskas
After the wildfires, 2023
Grief sits in the bottom of my lungs —
maybe I cradle it there so I…
Poetry
Photo by Tim Mossholder / Unsplash.com [A person should fold up his world] A person should fold up his world put his head between his legs and so observe his existence say things of worth things…
And the Earth Opened Its Mouth At the end of June my earth trembles also at the end of August, and also after Sukkot, and also before Passover and afterward. Every movement of the dials on the face o…
Photo by Geert Pieters / Unsplash.com Tranströmer The tea almost gone from our cups Ulla took off her glasses Said she met Tomas Tranströmer in his house in Sweden Schubert was…
Background photo by Sean McArthur / Unsplash.com Look — Santa Monica, so much like Italy. Old friend, remember when you and I lived down here? See all those fish shops? Here, come this way. A huge…
Photo by Fía Yang on Unsplash Une pointe de sel sur ma confession On vient me voir On me demande la mer Les algues et les poissons Je ne suis pas doué comme Jésus Po…
Photo by Hunter W on Unsplash Familiar, Tartane, though I’ve never been here before. Whole coast, Atlantic, stops believing in sun, or maybe that’s me, bouldered by winter. Pres…
Photo by Bowonpat - stock.adobe.com If a love song is made of water, the water you hold in your hands right now is a lyric, a song inside the rusty tap released, coil of silvered music unrave…
Liza Martin, Homelessness Home (2023), oil on canvas, 11 x 13 cm I’ve Been Border-Crossing All My Life after Anisa Rahim’s “A Russian Hacked My Pinterest Account” I’m not talkin…
Voyagerixon - stock.adobe.com If you mix rainwater with tears laughter with sun tornado and the wind with rising indignation. If you cry for the children, barefoot open-handed, whose approa…
Photo by Feng Weixiang (2012) Prophet When crows fly over the villages Panic erupts like a flash flood Soon after, as Nanmusa has prophesied A plague spreads along the valley Some life soon evapo…
Kikisoblu (Princess Angeline) at her house, circa 1893, Frank LaRoche, glass negative, b&w, 8 x 10 in. PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Se…
would those who used to be weather have a word for the weight of fall sky setting in may? again i am inclined to ask what i have done. my moon/scape goat insecure ly reflected in a pool of my maki…
Image photographed by Cody Hammer 𐓵𐓣𐓟 𐓣́𐓟 𐓪𐓷𐓘́𐓥𐓘͘𐓬𐓣 𐓥𐓪́͘𐓜𐓘 𐓷𐓘𐓧𐓟́𐓺𐓟 𐓣́𐓟 𐓷𐓘𐓮𐓤𐓘́ 𐓨𐓘́͘𐓻𐓘͘ 𐓩𐓣́𐓵𐓟 𐓵𐓟̋𐓤𐓘 𐓩𐓣́𐓥𐓘 𐓵𐓟 𐓘𐓬𐓘 𐓟́ 𐓵𐓣𐓸𐓪́͘ 𐓲𐓟 𐓤𐓘𐓵𐓪͘ 𐓻𐓘́́́͘𐓸𐓟 𐓘𐓵𐓣́͘𐓟 𐓟́ 𐓩𐓘͘𐓸𐓪́͘ 𐓬𐓟 𐓷𐓘𐓧𐓟́𐓺𐓟 𐓣́𐓟 𐓷𐓘𐓮𐓤𐓘́ 𐓩𐓣́𐓥𐓘 𐓘𐓬𐓘 𐓷𐓘𐓧𐓶́…
Photo by Dylan Hunter / Unsplash [She hides photographs] Ta yolon stem snak’oj lok’ombailetik. Mu buch’o xa valbe, sts’ajoj ta pox xkuxlejal viniketik, xchik’anoj ta ik’a…
Photo by Tania Victoria / Secretaría de Cultura de la Ciudad de México / Flickr K’opojel ¿Mach’a kati a sna’ bin a yal te awo’tane? ¿Mach’a kati ya’yoj te smantalil ak’ope? ¿Mac…
Photo by James Gaither / Flickr Nutsel Lok’el Lumal o’ anemun te avelov anta snamajesoj ukun lok’el te atojol, sts’ujetel spukujil jtoyobailetik snet’ojukun lok’el te atojol.…
Photo by Joan C Wrenn / Flickr K’uxbä kolel Junp’ej k’iñ tyi chilbeñtyiyoñ jkolel. CHe’ tyi ksäklä tyi ktyaja tyi ipaty ibäk’ juloñib, buts, butsñabä ibuts’il. …
Maya K’iche’ women of Chuwila Chichicastenango at winter solstice festivities / Courtesy of the author Elena Kame es un hechizo Elena Kame es un hechizo, muerde con su boquita canina, su saliva c…
The Mayan glyph k’aslem, which means life, is courtesy of the artist, Negma Coy K’aslem Yixajon chupam ri k’aq’ïq’ achi’el jun xik’awuj ri nisustut yib’ixan pa nik’aj a…
Photo by Motohiro Sunouchi / Flickr ¿Tii maa papa’? Akgtum jaxanat, xkilhpin akgapun, skitit xla lhtukit, xtatsan katsisni’, skgatanat xmakasiyan kuyu’. …
Photo by Pavel Kirillov / Flickr [Tä’äjk] Tä’äjk ijsyi’ajpajna’ sänhkä’ pitzä’omoram watpajna’ kayajupä’koroyaram äj’ wejkäis’te myajkpäupä te’ kakuy…
Gabriela Morac, Laz Duá (2020), linocut, 15 x 11 in. [Dxapahuiini’ lu té] Dxapahuiini’ lu té Dxapahuiini’ cá dxiibi’ guié lu Dxapahuiini’ ni biniti guendaruxidxi lade y…
White-bellied woodstar hummingbird, Upper Las Tangáras Reserve, Colombia / Photo by Doug Greenberg / Flickr Mamaku mushgoymanta Niy shuk machula mushgoymanta: Cay kamachik cay away ya…
The mind skitters, its one rudder Being its own voice. The great Fascist poet taught me free verse. Trying to concentrate on “The forgiving Of an unforgivable crime” in a lecture By Emmanuel Levinas,…
