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Noticing

2021-01-11 By Sara Barkat Filed Under: Abandoned, Articles, Awe, Beauty, Birds, Childhood Memories, Cities, Climate, Earth as Metaphor, Ecological Grief, Ecopoetics, Fairy Tales, Gratitude, Home, Hope, In Our Lives, Nature Stories, Philosophy, Sea, Short Stories, Transcendence

In “Noticing” a short story by Sara Barkat, two travelers and sewists at the end of the world remember extinct birds and fairy tales.

It’s Already Too Late—A Short Story

2020-10-13 By Sara Barkat Filed Under: Articles, Beauty, Being a Poet, Childhood Memories, Climate, Ecological Grief, Ecopoetics, Education, Fairy Tales, Home, Hope, Impact, In Our Lives, Nature Stories, Ocean, Philosophy, Plants, Plastic, Sea, Short Stories, Transcendence, Water, Wisdom

House on a hill. River down below. And the rains speckling the grass, dots of cold, salt-ocean.

Conditions—A Short Story

2020-05-26 By Sara Barkat Filed Under: Articles, Awe, Climate, Earth as Metaphor, Earth Care, Ecological Grief, Ecopoetics, Philosophy, Short Stories

The Frankenstein question of life—which this story handles in an intriguing new way—persists today, as much as it ever did. Hidden within the answers are philosophies that impact how we interact with earth, its climate, and its creatures.

Noticing

It’s Already Too Late—A Short Story

Conditions—A Short Story

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