ALT Poem by Vera Fibisan Below Ground by Vera Fibisan after Kathleen Jamie’s Surfacing gills of ground come away reveal the skin of another beast the trowel’s edge catches a chink of ivory or stone detached from permafrost a carving sees light as light hangs on to the horizon’s mound of sifted earth upheaving evading eroding a vertical edge colonised and deconstructed who carves this weathered landscape when the bears sleep and the wind forgets to scare the ground squirrels into hiding? beating the rusted scrap metal like an icy drum the object clasped in hand a ceremonial handle in ritual dance of becoming the task taken from the creature and transformed to open a fissure in space-time for the more-than-human to sneak in and settle on the village in the people in shared salmon berries shared with us too the flow of tendrilled water through country outwards towards aurora where a woman counts down to tide time to erasure time tapping the trowel to the drum

ALT Cover image for the new issue of Plumwood Mountain Journal featuring a straight road running into a Misty green forest. The text reads: VOL.09 N.01 SEPTEMBER 2022 A POETICS OF RIGHTS Edited by Charmaine Papertalk Green and John Kinsella, this issue opens up new perspectives on how ecologically-concerned poetry can be sensitive to First Nations cultures, country and knowledges, while also taking into account global environmental and human rights focuses.

ALT From Plumwood Mountain Journal’s website. An image of the sea with the words ‘Where Poetry Meets Purpose’ then a quote by Forrest Gander: “ecopoetry investigates - both thematically and formally - the relationship between nature and culture, language and perception.”