Every place contains layers of time, of presence. The landscape becomes coiled and criss-crossed with the paths of everyone who came before, of family and friends, of those we might never have met but whose passage can still be felt. And sometimes, a place we return to recalls who we used to be, greeting us with the ghost image of a former self.

Issue Ten winds its way between these layers of time and space, visiting houses and fishing holes, dry deserts and lush gardens, even delving down to the deepest part of the sea and growing up and out of dark soil towards the sky and spinning cosmos above.

In our contributors’ work, the past, present, and future exist together. As you travel through this issue, we encourage you to explore these many paths, to linger in the presence of those you meet along the way, and then perhaps, to re-emerge into all the layers of the landscape you call home.