Josephine Rowe

“Even on gentle days, waves thrash up the front beach without ceasing. But the estuary is a flat, bright thread of quicksilver that advances and retreats, traversed by geese overhead and stingrays below. Bits of your old life resurfacing, as if: Ready …”

“Four nights a week he sits in the dismal concierge cage and fills postcards to Sydney; a junk store haul of faded linen scenes showing The Palisades, The Chrysler, Cleo’s Needle, and woodsy upstate hamlets he’ll never visit, won’t …”

“For a time we moved into the [_____] memorial. Many had died, but we were not among them. Some among us had come closer than we would like to remember, but to not remember seemed a small destruction. There were no names inscribed on the [_____] memorial. …”

High above Capri’s busy Marina Grande, ornithologists use the spectacular vantage of the ruins of Castello Barbarossa to catch and observe migratory birds

Tasmanians Christo Mills and David Bretz on moving from the blockade to the pathway.

Amid the violent geology of Iceland, with its volcanoes and hot geysers it is the stillness that lingers in the memory.

Change is coming to Cuba, but in Havana on the eve of Barack Obama’s visit, they still don't know what form it will take.