Nature as crows fly 3 Feb 202625 Jan 2026 if herons left trailslike planessuch patches ofatmosphere we’ddeem superhighwaysfrom rookeryto fishto fieldfaithful as the southwardgeese Lanette Smith Lanette, an outdoor traipser since childhood, can be found noticing, creating, or sharing…
Nature… Costa Rican Monkey’s leafy path to a Drink 2 Feb 202625 Jan 2026 As we plied the waters of the RioPalo Verde in northern Costa Rica,we were told to look into the shorelineforest to see the white-faced monkeyshigh in the senna trees barely…
Nature Pause for the Wild Violet 1 Feb 202625 Jan 2026 One lap around the hillthe one that overlooks the ballfieldwhere little leaguers dream bigfathers raise rallying criesand mothers pray for a miracle This is our hilla modest green elevation of…
Paths 2026 High Summer 31 Jan 20263 Feb 2026 Walking along the lake pathin the early morning,with nature as my companion,is when I am most connected to life.I saw a Goldfinch today,the state bird of Iowa, where you grew…
Water Opening Act 3 May 20251 Feb 2026 Opening act: a raft of sea lionsgorge on stunned anchoviestoo profuse for predators’ pouches.Glistening steel breaks the surface,hunch-backed submarine bullswhose radar locates our purring motorone hundred miles away. Big boy…
Water The Upper Chiwawa 2 May 202530 Mar 2025 Take out the hook,put me back in the waterand let me swimagainst the current,from mouth to mouthof river feeding riverthen further upstream.I'll measure distance by smell.Channels will narrow.Your lures will…
Nature The River Has Many Faces 1 May 202528 Mar 2025 The River Has Many FacesThe river has manyfaces, surprisingwith the medicineof its song. Endlessripples and rhymes,an oft needed balm. Meandering at times,snoozing under willows,flowing like a fluid ribbon,appearing to dally,…
Water Water Weighs 30 Apr 202530 Mar 2025 It rushes, it trickles, it batters, it flows. For overnine months I floated in two poundsof water. And when my mother’s broke, I madea promise to understand the water’s ways.Ways…
Nature My Porch in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina 29 Apr 202528 Mar 2025 My home is in the middle of an un-tamed copsedark with curling live oak, hickory, ivy and fernUnderbrush arches like eyebrows overHobcaw Creek’s Cyclopean eyeflashing silver with fish outsideRemley Point…
Water never. 28 Apr 202530 Mar 2025 In the desolate chambers of my weary heart,Lies a darkness so profound, tearing me apart,You'll never taste the bitterness that I've sipped,You'll never feel the weight of the tears I've…
Nature Shiny Pennies 27 Apr 202528 Mar 2025 I dive off a boulder into currentsthat shimmy my mermaid hairsweep me over pebblesI touch with my fingers,trust my weightless limbs to the river’s whim I reach the hem of…
Water Waves 26 Apr 202530 Mar 2025 In the summers we were split upMy brother and I would go to my father’s parentsMy stepbrother and stepsisterWould go to their mother’s motherMy dad and step mother would travel…
Nature The Pelican at Pismo Beach 25 Apr 202528 Mar 2025 Nearly twenty years earlier we’d been here as visitorsfrom the east with our three daughters—one of whom,on her way to LA to become an actor in a touring group. Now,…
Water Water Pleasures 24 Apr 202530 Mar 2025 Water will find a way as it pleasesand we find a way to water.The dog swims in the river head hightrying to catch the sparkles of splashlittle sprites in enticing…
Nature Witnessing Time 22 Apr 202528 Mar 2025 Descend sixty-seven weathered stepsTo an unimagined beachAshen bones of driftwoodRest on crunchy pebblesHuge elephant back boulders wade in the waterOthers sunbathe on shoreTheir million year boreal journeyDriven by the carving…
Water Cycles 21 Apr 202530 Mar 2025 Spring showers petal the pavement with spent dogwood and azalea. An invisible piano spills Chopin from an open window. A young woman hurries past, laughing with her swaddled child. Cars…
Nature Manitou Passage 20 Apr 202528 Mar 2025 Your stones loosen in the churn of freshwaterwhere they once woke, spirited and carriedWest to East, promising Good Harbor. Whose earliest map was written upon hearts? Sunk with their exhaustionyour…
Water Water, Everywhere 19 Apr 202530 Mar 2025 A mirrored splash of sunny skies on streamsWinds its lazy way in lonely forests.Heaven meets Earth to share its loving dreams,As soaring trees reach the skies above to caress.Sounds echo…
Nature Stillness 18 Apr 202528 Mar 2025 Underwater stillness, deep quiet,Sounds of a busy world submerge,Noise and chaos drowned. Even the beehive of my mind stops,Calmed and engaged for the durationOf a scuba tank full of oxygen.…
Water A River Sheds its Skin 17 Apr 202530 Mar 2025 A winter river sheds its skinlike a shark loses its teeth.Frost-bites its own tongue,nipping Coyote's nose as he drinks fromthe banks and gnaws thefour bony ankles of Doe,whose legs traversethe…
Nature Waterfront Paddle 16 Apr 202528 Mar 2025 The lighthouse brightens.Summer showcasesSpace, harmfulWithout import of cotton.Typeset, embossed in stone,The crafted tip trailsFelt. IndigoCanals await.Invasive & sleeved in,Years spreadBeyond cleanup,Driving pure rubber.Aquatic accents pleatShade to elbows,Jacquard painted& recycled by…
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