Six Poems to Celebrate Orion’s archive project ...

Because grandmothers helped out, we, as an entire species, grew to live longer and longer and developed our big brains, tiny ...

I am seen. You have correctly assessed my innermost desires.” ...

A CATFISH WITH THREE EYES lived in the Gowanus Canal. I can say this with confidence because I have seen the evidence. The catfish was shiny and pitch-dark. After a fisherman hooked it and reeled it ...

BIGFOOT ISN’T REAL, but black bears are—that’s the subtext of a recent study by Dr. Floe Foxon mapping bear populations relative to cryptid sightings. That study, published in 2024, sparked my ...

LEAVING A GARDEN IS LIKE leaving a marriage—it’s an abandonment of the plan. The plan, which, in the perennial garden, extends beyond death. “When we were planning our first backyard perennial garden, ...

THE GUITAR LINE UNFURLS with a kinetic, pulsing energy. Soft moans hover over the riff, both spooky and sensual. Then the synth slides in, drums steady the beat, and the song swells with the promise ...

HE IS HUNCHED DOWN feeding on the carcass of a newly dead bison by the northeast shore of Yellowstone Lake. He eats methodically, gratefully, his muzzle smeared with blood, his forearms and ruff ...

I WAS TAUGHT, AS A SCIENTIST, to think logically and empirically, rather than intuitively or spiritually.When I was at Cambridge University in the early 1960s most of the scientists and science ...

Tired of looking at ugly buildings? Escape the eyesores by homing in on their elemental constituents. Walk through any large city and you will find walls of a wide range of rocks equal to any ...

THE CHICKEN WAS UNWELL. She no longer ran to the summons of the leftovers pail to scratch at the compost heap with the other hens. Morning found her in a corner of the henhouse facing the wall, with ...