Paths 2026 Unplanned Paths 24 Mar 202619 Mar 2026 My journey to Africa began on YouTube, withan image of a black leopard named Spirit.I watched a video about him ten times at least,his sleek silhouette imbedded in my psyche.Amazed…
Paths 2026 Into the Dirt 23 Mar 202619 Mar 2026 It was always about drinking the sunand taking deep breaths and now it’sNot letting the maggots get to youI hike great lengths to evade the viewsTo get into the dirtAnd…
Nature Blazing My Own Trail 22 Mar 202613 Mar 2026 Solivagant – wandering my path alone.I love wandering - so much to discover -so much to learn -so many moments of wonder.When I can’t see the path ahead of meI…
Nature Morning Prayer 21 Mar 202621 Mar 2026 Our days begin uphillThe route the same:sun, snow, fog, rain ―how many hundred mornings?Each unique. We walk, six legs together;two and four,pause where fields roll out of foreststo receive scent…
Nature Correction Notice – March 17 Publication Error 21 Mar 202621 Mar 2026 We recently published a poem on March 17 under an author’s name that was not their work. Due to an internal error, a poem that had been correctly published the…
Nature With My Wife’s Ashes, I Walk the Camino de Santiago 21 Mar 202613 Mar 2026 We are on our way, drenchedin doubt and faith. Memorieshang on arms and reach out for grace; the ugly smell of dayson days, miles stacked on milesof decay swirling out…
Nature We set off into the woods 20 Mar 202613 Mar 2026 Never a glance back.Nothing in our pocketsbut the stones and pineconeswe find along the way—the occasional treasureof bone and eggshell, mossand feather. We knew the storyof Hansel and Gretel.The old…
Nature Snowbirding in Charleston 19 Mar 202613 Mar 2026 Leaving, what holds me back?what is this backwards tug?I lock the door and hang the key.Driving south, low countryis a 3D photocopyof what I’ve left:Marsh stretching to the seawith barrier…
Nature Mother Sparrow 18 Mar 202613 Mar 2026 The sparrow tells me that being alone is my chance to singThat the time it took for the baby bird to rise and fall out of the nestHitting every branch…
Nature The Unplowed Road beyond Ohanapecosh 16 Mar 202613 Mar 2026 How can there be these tracksacross the hardened crust of snowand no trace of their makers?Many have passedor made incursions here:elk and coyote,rabbit shadowed by fox,junco and jay. I've built…
Nature Paths From One Life To Another 15 Mar 202613 Mar 2026 I.mountain streams flow downinto each otherout of their sounds--Buson High above the fray and clatter, a mountainstands and waits. Every day her streamscarry bits of her away with their flow—gravel,…
Nature The Week of Swans 14 Mar 202613 Mar 2026 Stagnant, stuck, stinking without visible rot,this slow time of no healing. Heart dulled to stupid,thought a weedy pasture, rivergone obscenely dry. No reeds, no fish, no stub of stunted prayeruntil…
Nature Gardens of Embroidered Love Tokens 13 Mar 202612 Mar 2026 A vast enchanted garden exists right in my backyard—a transposed cloud from a magical time and place.Each garden within another—handmade, intricate lace,carefully embroidered love tokens. In May’s perfect Goldilocks weather,I…
Paths 2026 SEEING THE FOX 12 Mar 202618 Feb 2026 They come to the creek for water,So stand behind a cottonwood trunk,flutter like leaves,pretend to be a locust,stay quiet, and listen. Wait.Expect nothing, a surprisecrossing the road at nightwhere the…
Nature… Snow Globe 11 Mar 202618 Feb 2026 After the divorce, my life sat in my hands like a snow globe violently shaken.Desolation swirled inside, then leaked beyond the glass—a hoary cloud engulfing me, twisting my view of…
Paths 2026 Open Water 10 Mar 202618 Feb 2026 Sliding by the creek edge,watching the ripples amplify.Where the bow goes I don’t know,I aim it aimlessly,For there is no path here,Just capricious directions,beckon to the will of the windand…
Paths 2026 Don’t Walk the Line 9 Mar 202612 Feb 2026 A butterfly’s serpentine pathbetween impromptu floral sketchesof tears and joy, bitter and sweet.Clusters of summer grapes clippedby the vigneron, left to fertilize the soil,vines decluttered for better balancebetween fruit and…
Nature… Without You, My Existence Drifts 8 Mar 202612 Feb 2026 Ushiku, Minami 2-18-38, Ibaraki 300-1222, JapanWithout you, my existence drifts—no embered threshold to welcome the ache,no star-mapped path to hush my roaming,no anchor in the surge that swallows light.The wind…
Nature… Your Forest 7 Mar 202611 Feb 2026 Dedicated to my childrenOne morning, when you awakenat my age now, you will realizehow your life has become a forestof highways, webs and riversthat sometimes flow smoothlyand sometimes laden with…
Nature I See Sharon Laughing 6 Mar 202611 Feb 2026 Like fairy tale pictures in a big bookillustrated in crayon colors—each character, tree, flower, birdoutlined in thin black ink for emphasis.I remember walks through woodsdappled in summer light,softness of pine…
Paths 2026 Swamp-lit Saunter 5 Mar 202611 Feb 2026 Autumn bleeds into Solstice the way poetry soaks before the ripple but comes to me as wordless breath that vanishes on composing. Morning swamp-to saunter taking pause on recumbent ash…
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