July/August 2022
— A child describes the frozen world inside a Henri Rousseau painting where a tiger sits tamed, a man holds blank paper, and nothing moves or grows despite appearing alive.
— A perfect little girl meets her imaginative neighbor who takes her on a magical journey through a silver door to a Second World of castles, lollipop gardens, and rainbow-chasing ships.
— A poem traces a plant's journey from sprout breaking through soil to flower blooming in sunlight, celebrating each stage of growth.
— A girl recalls three years of observing squirrels, rabbits, and birds from her Illinois home's windows before returning to China.
— A child vows to keep a secret forever, measuring that promise against apocalyptic visions of environmental destruction and the end of the world.
— A young poet explores cosmic scale through parallel structures, contrasting the singular (one mind, one world) with the multiple (thousand eyes, thousand hearts).
— A disembodied perspective from a ditch observes the world above—sun, sky, ladybugs—while grass grows wild around what remains.