Vol. I · No. 24 · The Weekly Issue · From Key West to the Panhandle
The FloridianReporting, fiction, criticism, poetry, and cartoons — from the peninsula
Poetry · Poem
An encounter with the invasive paperbark tree in a Broward County park.
Its bark is layers of white felt that peel away like sodden card, smelling of pungent camphor oil.
Brought from the southern hemisphere to drink the swamp and dry the dirt, it stands in gray, aggressive groves.
But here the mockingbird still sings from its pale, papery bough beneath the drone of the highway.
Poem
An account of the citrus groves of Polk County under a hard frost warning.
Poem
An observation on the gentle beasts seeking warmth in Volusia County.
Poem
A short poem for the hour that is not quite an hour.
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