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With dirt under the fingernails, Featured Essay (Opening Paragraph) Title: The Cartography of Fallen Leaves By: Elena Voss

A samara does not fall straight down. It autorotates. It hesitates. It spins away from the trunk that made it, not in defeat, but in design. samara journal

I found one last Tuesday, lodged between the keys of my piano. It had flown three blocks, over a parking lot and a dog park, to die on middle C. I almost threw it away. Instead, I taped it to the wall above my desk. With dirt under the fingernails, Featured Essay (Opening