The We of Two Horses

The We of Two Horses

Even one and one’s loneliness,the we of our cats or the we oftwo horses in the autumn field,side to side, head to rump,their muscular together. It’s betterwith a we, my mother said to mewhen I first met you, and I saidagain to you last Saturday morningas...
Local Book Shop Spotlight

Local Book Shop Spotlight

Janke Book Store has been a fixture of downtown Wausau for generations. Erected in 1874 by Richard J. Collie and purchased by Carl Janke and Reno Kurth in 1919, the retail space at 508 3rd Street was the first incarnation of this Marathon County treasure. Although,...
White-nose Syndrome Found in Wisconsin Bats

White-nose Syndrome Found in Wisconsin Bats

White-nose syndrome, a bat disease that has spread to 23 states and killed up to five million bats since 2006, has been confirmed in Wisconsin, according to officials from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Results from visual inspection and genetic and...
Ten Weeks: Ice Fishing in Wisconsin

Ten Weeks: Ice Fishing in Wisconsin

Beginning as a contemplation of the architectural form of the ice shanty, Ten Weeks: Ice Fishing in Wisconsin became much more than that over the ten-week duration of the ice fishing season where I live. I found beauty and community, and I fell for both the day I...
Light As Medicine?

Light As Medicine?

What if there was a way to treat debilitating diseases without drugs or surgery? What if chronic injuries could be healed with the application of something as ubiquitous as light? Scientists have known for years that some wavelengths of light in certain doses can heal...
Osmazome

Osmazome

briefcases into the dinosaur, counterfactual jackals slavering centipedes in stone: that’s a fine spelunking! way to beak the ink face, gerrymander. to press always fibers between plate glass, a way to break snakeskin boots in! swiftly, madeleine, that’s an unzippered...