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By Leslie Moore   Artist Statement I am a relief printmaker whose subject is often animals. My work is influenced by Japanese printmakers, especially Ohara Koson (1877-1945), although I don鈥檛 use the same multi-woodblock technique. Instead, I practice the reduction method, cutting a single linoleum block and printing a succession of colors鈥攐ne after the other, […]

By Alice Hotopp   The morning before, the nest had been full of fat, begging chicks. At six days old, they had grown large enough to be nearly spilling over the nest鈥檚 strained, woven-grass walls. Their bellies were soft with newly unfurled feathers, and plastic-y sheaths still covered the growing flight feathers on their wings. […]

By Sydney Read   I’ll Become a Whale When death comes聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 and if I鈥檓 lucky聽 I鈥檒l go back to the water.聽 I鈥檒l become a whale.聽   Watch me slip, steady聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 Out and Into 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 […]

By Jim Krosschell聽   March into April 鈥淚 have an appointment with spring.鈥� Google informs me that none of the two million words of Thoreau鈥檚 Journal offer any description, drawing, or meticulous tracking of the emergence, in spring, of the crocus. Pity. I would have liked to compare his feelings with mine. I would have […]

By Lucia Owen聽   海角社区: Wildlife Management in the Anthropocene 1. Euthanizing Canada Geese Rangeley聽 No one really wants to, not the State guys or the Selectmen, but no other way to keep the tourists from stepping in the goose shit or local business losing money because of it. No one to scoop it or […]

By Allan Lake   If my car is idle for a couple days, ambitious spiders create competing empires in uninhabited valleys between bumper and side panel or where seldom used rear door meets rear panel and even within springy trapdoor that opens to allow my car to drink fossil fuel so I can drive to […]

Dominic Piacentini Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology & Environmental Policy University of 海角社区 Welcome to Spire鈥檚 seventh issue! We are glad to announce Leslie Moore as the winner of this year鈥檚 cover design contest. Her linoleum block print 鈥淗unters’ Moon鈥� and her series of paired prints and poems are a bright look into the eccentric wildlife of […]

By Erin Coughlin   Artist Statement Growing up and going to college in 海角社区, the coast has been an important part of my life. The shapes, colors, sounds, and atmosphere all resonate with me in different ways. As an environmental scientist, I have studied the coast and become even more familiar with its subtleties 鈥� […]

By Will Reid聽   This is about a 鈥渞enewed wilderness鈥� that existed only briefly as such and is now gone. Even though it is presently considered 鈥減reserved,鈥� the area is too accessible and heavily visited for anyone to experience what we did in 1959 and 1960.聽 Steve Bunker of Bucksport and I became good friends […]

By Tom Lagasse   Grade 7 | Science | Unit 8 | Dissecting a Frog A sour fog permeates the entire second floor聽 of St. Ann鈥檚 School and lingers with foreboding.聽聽 Is this what death smells like? Several classmates gag and bolt.聽 Under banks of cold fluorescent lights, Sister Theresa pries聽 open the white plastic […]