Issue 20: Change

March, 2025

Cover Artist: Isaac Kerlow


Editorial

Although at times it may feel like our contemporary reality is hurtling towards greater disorder, entropy is only one force of change. The science of change explores how organisms, individuals, and societies adapt, what mechanisms drive transformation, and why resistance to changes in the status quo is such a common experience…


Editor’s Picks

Grief moves like a glacier by Karen Macfarlane
Neural Cartography by Norazha Paiman
Our Host is About Her Own Business by Lee Fraser
Pressure Changes by Meg Freer





Poems

After Compression by Laurinda Lind
Bone idle by Hannah McGivern
Chance + Choice + Change = Serendipity by Lennart Björneborn
Chickadee Ridge (for Nancy) by Patricia J. Franz
Coming to a Head, Coming to a Wall by John MacNeill Miller
Dust to Moondust by Mitch Browne
Entropy by Nicholas Hogg
Fire Weather by Barbara E. Hunt
Grief moves like a glacier by Karen Macfarlane
Hope... despite by Helena Fornstedt


Larvae in lines by Chris Gillen
Makemake by Dennis Owen Frohlich
Myself as another by Katrin Ahlgren
Neural Cartography by Norazha Paiman
of the foreshore by Katie Hart Potapoff
Our Host is About Her Own Business by Lee Fraser
Photosynthesis by Laura Bowater
Pressure Changes by Meg Freer
The Weeks I Live as a Female Glasswing Butterfly (Greta oto) by Moira Garland
Triggers – a pantoum by Eleanor Dunn


Art Pieces with ConciliARTe

Emergence by Maureen Manning 
emplacement by Sahrysha Thomson and April Twomey 
evolve by Gemma Veldman 
Home by Ella Nichols, Jhet Bowen, and Noah Hadwen 
Life by Weeks by Indy Scarletti 
Looking Back by Katrin Ahlgren 

Metamorphosis by Claire Price 
small geode with purple crystals by Tiana Blackmore 
Strahlzeit by Frank Poppe 
Study for Mutated Synapse by Isaac Kerlow 
The Cast of the Archaeopteryx by Mary Amato 


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