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Reckoning‘s milestone tenth issue includes poetry, essays, fiction, and art on the theme of communication in environmental justice by Moníca Robles Corzo, Daphne Fauber, Rem Wigmore, Sneha Subramanian Kanta, Jamie McGhee, Elinor Ann Walker, Kevin J. Binder, Kelsey Dean, Alexandra Dawson, Hiria Dunning, Rain Jordan, Hank LaRose, J.R. Staples-Ager, CP Nwankwo, José Luis Ramírez, Luis Rafael Moya, Geneva Toland, Verdell Walker, Mike Wheeler, Odega Shawa, Adegboyega Kayowa, Fendy S. Tulodo, Rowan Tate, Dyani Sabin, J.L. Rifkin, Roseline Mgbodichinma, Rath Mercury, Moshe Schaffzin, Fatima E., Gloria Ogo, Oladosu Michael Emerald, and Sophie Fink.
Reckoning X was collectively edited by C.G. Aubrey, E.C. Barrett, Octavia Cade, Priya Chand, Offor Chidera, Michael J. DeLuca, Tim Fab-Eme, Joseph Hope, Kat Murray, Ruth Joffre, Aaron Kling, Andrew Kozma, Ellis Nye, Jackie Roberti, Catherine Rockwood, and Bernie Jean Schiebeling.
Contents
Cover: Circle of Life — Art — Moníca Robles Corzo
Endpaper: Creation — Art — Daphne Fauber
Editorial: Circle of Life — Essay — Michael J. DeLuca
Editorial: Becoming “We” — Fiction — Reckoning Editorial Staff
Editorial: Everything’s Environmental Justice — Essay — C. G. Aubrey
Antediluvian — Fiction — Rem Wigmore
Newspaper Erasures as Questions with Answers for Two Cities — Poetry — Sneha Subramanian Kanta
The Over-Sea — Fiction — Jamie McGhee
10,000 Caverns — Poetry — Elinor Ann Walker
The Eternal Hourglass — Fiction — Kevin J. Binder
Nightmare — Poetry — Kelsey Dean
This is not a love poem — Poetry — Alexandra Dawson
Love in the Time of Te Rāhuinui — Fiction — Hiria Dunning
Camouflage — Art — Rain Jordan
The Mouthful — Fiction — Hank LaRose
Dr. _____ and His Thousand Children — Fiction — J.R. Staples-Ager
Once, I returned Tulip, Once I became — Poetry — CP Nwankwo
Resurrecting a River — Fiction — José Luis Ramírez
Resucitar un río — Fiction — José Luis Ramírez
Agujero Negro — Poetry — Luis Rafael Moya
Point Wolf/Wolf Point — Poetry — Geneva Toland
Pinkerton Hot Springs/Hot Spring Post-Pinkerton — Poetry — Geneva Toland
To Stand, You Must be Rooted — Fiction — Verdell Walker
Daydreams and Wooden Shutters — Art — Mike Wheeler
The Power of the Land — Fiction — Odega Shawa
Recollection — Poetry — Adegboyega Kayowa
Burn Barrel Astrology — Poetry — Fendy Satria Tulodo
Botany of the Mouth — Art — Rowan Tate
On Leafing — Poetry — Dyani Sabin
Reclamation — Fiction — J.L Rifkin
Still from Accra & Ghana: the Fighting Youth is the Most Beautiful — Art — Roseline Mgbodichinma Anya-Okorie
Herkimer Inquiries — Fiction — Rath Mercury
The Main Thing is to Not Be Afraid: Tove Jansson, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Art in the Era of Climate Change — Essay — Moshe Schaffzin
A rubāʿī for the rescued pangolin of Ravi flood — Poetry — Fatima E.
When the Earth Answers — Poetry — Gloria Ogo
Our Earth, Our Future — Art — Oladosu Michael Emerald
Sturgeon Baby — Poetry — Sophie Fink









