Nature The Longing 13 May 202612 May 2026 I long for silence.I long for short sentences.I long for the kind of quiet where I can hear humans breathing in a room,or feel my own pulse in the stillness.I…
Nature the animals they’ve become 12 May 202613 May 2026 I became a foxand walked formiles along the trailmarked for peopleturning to birds of preyMy friends are long goneMy sternum cracksat the thought of themthe weight theycarrytheanimals they’vebecome Brandon Earl…
Paths 2026 You ask how I walk the same place each day 11 May 20264 May 2026 the night sand returns, exhaustedswallowed by the tide, it spends the eveningdancing in moon-sprinkled sea, ticklingthe bellies of dreaming dolphinsslumbering in lulling waveswhile I sleep, the night sandmakes mischief –…
Nature The Dog and Me 10 May 20263 May 2026 Once on a winter’s night the dog and mewere at once evasion and serenityWe were delusional and at peace.He juked up as if to say the craic’s not goodwith me…
Paths 2026 Nine Foot Road (A Chrysalis) 9 May 20263 May 2026 The wayto divinationis the wee lanternthat still lightsthe east side of the garden wall,though she has long been empty.Hand-paintedwith gold leaf,her flecksagainst opaque skinare the stepsI countdaily,to raisethis long trodden…
Nature my walking body 8 May 20263 May 2026 - Susan Michele Coronel Susan Michele Coronel’s collection, “In the Needle, A Woman” (Finishing Line Press, 2025) won the 2024 Donna Wolf Palacio Prize. Susan's poems have been twice nominated…
Paths 2026 The Final Tree of the Amazon 6 May 20263 May 2026 I’m no longer sure where the river starts and the mudends. Bodies of water now house tin cans,plastic nets, oil droplets. When I had fewer ringsand branches, a child covered…
Paths 2026 Life in the Alleyway 5 May 20263 May 2026 Outside in the predawn darknessTwo owls, great horned, are hootingin close conversationhaving finished hunting, they traveleda familiar flightpath to our neighborhoodand turn themselves to anothersort of hunger, of coursing bloodand…
Nature… Path to Little Ruin 4 May 202630 Apr 2026 to Josiahthe leaves lay downthe carbon at my feetthe Leith is sniffing outthe settler’s stone shed the oldquarry the first dam the wateris dripping purple poroporofrom the side of the…
Paths 2026 Lay Lines 3 May 202630 Apr 2026 bewildered we stoodin the wildernesseach poem a held breathlike love or silencethere were no roadswe hated the word purposewe threw our heads backdefiantlythe white of our eyesnervous as horsesbut we…
Paths 2026 Nights like this 2 May 202630 Apr 2026 I stand in the full moon nightI think I see youor maybe your fleeting shadowgone in the blink of an eye.The moon is blinding tonight,Trees stand tall with an ethereal…
Nature WATCHING FORTY-SEVEN BISON TREADING THE SACRED PATH 1 May 202626 Apr 2026 Today let’s celebrate bison – the forty-seven released on the Wind River Reservation in 2021. May they thrive on protected lands of the tribes – Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho.…
Nature RIP Goodman Moose 30 Apr 202626 Apr 2026 Why, why do we feel (we all feel) this sweet sensation of joy? - Elizabeth BishopThe DEC has euthanized the bull moose that unusual divagations, wandered the trail up the…
Nature Walking to Work 29 Apr 202626 Apr 2026 I flush the birds out with my stepsHouse sparrows in the yewsA pair of mourning doves at the feederThey startle, loudly, thenresettle on the power linesI tell myself, look upLike…
Nature You Can Become 28 Apr 202626 Apr 2026 The First and Final Poem is the Sun —Rowan Ricardo PhillipsFirst and foremost, let there be light. Try to dwell in brightness.Sometimes we seek darkness, thinking it brings solace.Yes, it…
Nature The dawn – an original path to paradise 27 Apr 202626 Apr 2026 The dawn. The lighted silence. Very soon, there will be the dawn chorus-a torch to teach the day A lesson- avoid the human. My lot of death certificates open the…
Nature Chesapeake Bay: August 26 Apr 202626 Apr 2026 Sails billowSweltering day vanishes The old wooden boat skims over the waterfollowing a path of rippling moonlightI trail my hand in the frothing wakeWater streams over the varnished hullThe shore’s…
Nature Willowbrook 25 Apr 202624 Apr 2026 Up and around to stones, a city of stones, standing, lying, each with a name,three hours’ drive,a path of daffodils.Stones. Names I never heard.When I can, I go,sit on the…
Nature Trekking 24 Apr 202622 Apr 2026 It’s as if I’d been stumbling through a fallacious forest.My head in a thick duping overstory.But I knew it when I saw it--the pasture clearing,dotted with cow dung,some old and…
Nature Running Hard Herself, My Fox 23 Apr 202622 Apr 2026 barks to me that I must go on.I am trembling, weak, deep-stung?I feel lost among dark stones?She laughs at me in silver ripples,tells me with her full red furI’m the…
Nature Path 22 Apr 202621 Apr 2026 I follow the pathunfolding before medoorways appearout of mist and forest.I don’t know where this pathgoes, I just know thatit’s the one I’m on.The path winds its way through dark…
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