“Nature will bear the closest inspection; she invites us to lay our eye level with the smallest leaf and take an insect view of its plain. She has no interstices; every part is full of life.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“Vernal Locks” and “Upward Impermanence” appear in The Purposeful Mayonnaise , Issue 6: Bloom (April/May 2022), https://www.thepurposefulmayo.com/issue-6