The Time of Anise is from the memoir of place Black Diamonds: A Childhood Colored by Coal by Catherine Young published in 2023 by Torrey House Press. The memoir looks back on childhood in a Pennsylvania coal mining Valley, and the Time of Anise remembers holiday baking in the early 1960s.

The Time of Anise is from the memoir of place Black Diamonds: A Childhood Colored by Coal by Catherine Young published in 2023 by Torrey House Press. The memoir looks back on childhood in a Pennsylvania coal mining Valley, and the Time of Anise remembers holiday baking in the early 1960s.

REPLENISH by Catherine Young reimagines our deep connection to water in our rural landscapes 50 years into the future. REPLENISH is from the Wormfarm Institute 2023 zine, Imagine.

As the colors drain from the Wisconsin rural landscape, the last garden harvest brings the colors indoors until the house on the wintering land becomes its own small sun. AS WE WAIT FOR WINTER by Catherine Young is from her collection Geosmin published in 2022 by Water’s Edge Press.

THE LOST PLEIAD by Wisconsin poet Donna Carnes is based on the universal myths about the Seven Sisters (Pleiades) brilliant star cluster seen in November, used to guide sailors home.

CIDER APPLES by Catherine Young is a poem of compounded sound describing October apples on an abandoned tree. It was published in Barstow & Grand in 2022.

APPLE SEASON by Minnesota Poet Laureate, Joyce Sutphen, from her collection Carrying Water to the Field. The poet moves us from tree to kitchen to apple-rich foods with the work of her mother and grandmother.