The loveliest thing about periodic cicadas is their red eyes. Their wings are mottled in golden brown, like precious metal, lace over ebony. Certain insects become jewelry: scarab beetles, dragonflies, […]
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Letter From Patagonia
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A Field Trip to an Ancient Landscape
Imagining the Outer Cape of 6,000 years ago
What must it have been like to live on this landscape a thousand years ago, before the Europeans came here? I sketch objects in museums and map them onto the […]
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September
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Cape Cod Catboat on the Provincetown Quadrangle
The map and sailboat are my interpretations in walnut ink on Quadrangle for Provincetown, Mass., 1972: U.S. Geological Survey. My work is overlaid on Eugene Zhukau’s cyanotype print of “Town […]
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Year-Rounders Have No Regrets
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On Being in the Presence of a Whale
Curiosity, awe, and guilt inspire a ritual for an animal lost at sea
It’s been more than a month since a juvenile humpback whale washed ashore, dead, on the inner beach near Long Point Light in Provincetown. News like this circulates and the […]
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Pumpkin Spice
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The tides
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Fall Treasures
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The Real American Horror Story
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Hermit Crab Housing Crisis
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Screen Door and Vine
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Juneteenth in Provincetown
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The Weedy Garden
