Stone Soup Magazine
— 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.
— A young poet stands with open hands, waiting to receive rain, life, and all the world's green until only she remains in eternal readiness.
— A child observes others who seem to contain multitudes while affirming her own singular self—one soul, one mind, one heart against the night's thousand stars.