By S.E. Reid Editor’s Note: Ferris Island is “located right at the elbow where Puget Sound meets the Salish Sea,” with “some strange hidden corners and a very unusual history.” Please enjoy this tale of an island similar in many ways to what we Islanders like to speak of as our own “Old Vashon.” For…
June 2026, Literary
The Lake
By S.E. Reid Editor’s note: For your summer reading pleasure, we have an island tale by local author S.E. Reid. Ferris Island is “located right at the elbow where Puget Sound meets the Salish Sea. The inhabitants are normal folk, just like you and me…except that the place where they live has some strange hidden…
Nature, Poetry, September 2025
Bird Sermon
By S. E. Reid Aside from being one of the most widely recognizable saints in history, Saint Francis of Assisi is typically used as an enduring symbol of holy ecology and love for Creation. According to the legends about his incredible life, Francis preached to the birds, extended compassion to a ferocious wolf, and surrounded…
Poetry, September 2025
A Cup of September
By S. E. Reid I love September. I love the holy in-between-ness of it, the way it slinks in on tentative tiptoes. One summer day you’re over-warm and uncomfortable, and then one morning you wake up and catch a whiff of autumn. It’s subtle, but it’s there. Just a hint. Before living here on these…
June 2025, Poetry
Swimmers
By S. E. Reid lake-cold is its own moment,a sleeping aquifer yawning underfootinvisiblebut we can feel it; this wateris thousands of years oldand yet we—finite things—swim unaware in eternity,dragonflies dodgingin the heavy summer stillness. the dogs shake,glitter flies,fish dart away from our kicking feet, and up high,the humming planes look down on usswimming breast-stroke through…