Category: no.3

• Paddling Back to Blue Mind

  

  Swimming was once the ultimate escape—until it became the ultimate embodiment of my anxiety.

• Topography of a Body Burned

  

  I’m a cartographer of my burn scars, so I know mapmaking is only fun when there are coastlines. Water is an essential element for life.

• Letter from the Editor

  The Woodlands Magazine invites you home.

• A Darker Home

  

  The Darkest House is a book-based game about a hostile house. But what happens when not just your house, but part of your home, turns against you?

• A Brief History of Trees in Philadelphia

  The Philly Tree Plan was a report issued by the City of Philadelphia in February, 2023. This poem was inside.

• Jersey Diner Diaries

  

  In this appreciative and thoughtful prosaic landscape of New Jersey, two natives go back home to explore some of its diners.

• For the Face and Body

  

  In the mirror I imagine myself beyond the ambivalent symbol staring back at me, a reproduction of my mother, and both a thesis and antithesis of who I am and want to become.

• Home in “Lake No Negro”

  

  This writer lays bare the ugly history of Oregon, Lake Oswego, and her own experiences growing up in the Pacific Northwest.

• A Prayer to St. Anthony

  

  A reflection on loss, losing, and finding anew.