Nature in the Now Looking Out 31 Mar 2019 I was standing in this rock like cave looking out. Photograph by Michelle Wittensoldner
Nature Poetry Heron 31 Mar 201925 Mar 2019 All wings and legs, you take your stilted stance atop a branch that seems too thin to bear your weight yet there you stand in search of fish. It’s only…
Nature in the Now For Joy 30 Mar 2019 Plump pigeons wheel and float, sunstruck necks glittering; gray wings wide, they ride the tufts of lifting wind— a wild, joyous dance. They know the perfect predator perched above, …
Nature Poetry Composition With Mature Willow 29 Mar 201925 Mar 2019 I drape my thoughts across the folds of decades past and arrived, point my long spindled fingers like a dial at the verdancy of your lawn. The creeping moon is…
Nature in the Now Genesis Trio 29 Mar 2019 Genesis Story It is time for renewal It is time for cleaning, for a laying on of hands, be washed by the snow as it melts, listen only to the…
Nature Snow Boots and Mittens 29 Mar 201926 Feb 2019 I remember the morning I awoke to my very first snow. I was seven years old and my family had just moved to the Willamette Valley from Long Beach, California.…
Nature Poetry Chattahoochee River 28 Mar 201925 Mar 2019 Hello painted rock Our heads have not come to meet in a long while. Where have I been? Too long have I been in a prison like no other, I…
Nature in the Now Breath 28 Mar 2019 Until he hikes far enough away to where lawnmowers do not whine and tires do not hum on concrete to where warblers rustle leaf to leaf until he finds a…
Nature Poetry Quoth the Sea 27 Mar 201925 Mar 2019 Beware my kiss among the seaweed stalks the bone-lace wave rubbishing among the pools the whale who booms in to bone-bound muscle. We imagine and then enter it and fashion…
Nature Photography… I should hope to pray like the trees 26 Mar 201925 Mar 2019 “The trees can’t control their lives. We can’t always control what happens to us. The trees can teach us acceptance. And metamorphosis.” - Linda Brown, quoted in The Nature Fix.…
Nature in the Now Once More 26 Mar 2019 Muted to cornflower, my brain drifts into other blue hues, meanwhile the heavens bleach themselves accordingly. Since I have not slept, I have seen it all: the rise and fall…
Nature Poetry Anemone 25 Mar 201923 Mar 2019 Backyard rows bear familiar names: potato, lettuce, pepper, leek, tomato, carrot, onion, beet. Market bins are stacked in simple terms: cherries, apples, kiwis, grapes, pecans, lemons, melons, dates. Bouquets hold…
Nature in the Now Knock Knock 25 Mar 2019 Photograph by Michelle Wittensoldner Was quite funny, I was actually out looking for owls this day...I was looking in trees and holes, etc. It was as if this squirrel was…
Nature in the Now The Moon and Venus 24 Mar 2019 The moon rose as a woman today, Face half-buried in a pillow of clouds; Her mouth round, Eyes soft, Looking on me As I walked through pines In the fading…
Nature Poetry I Throw Rocks Into the Water 24 Mar 201923 Mar 2019 What is it, gray and ridged, sitting all to itself in a bed of many others? What is it now that I recognize it, that I, with my brief hand…
Nature Poetry On The Rock 23 Mar 201927 Mar 2019 poised on a slanted rock not sliding, not tumbling to the Rio Grande below like a rock himself, The Great Blue Heron unflinching in the fierce sun his serene pose,…
Nature in the Now And in Silence, She Weeps 23 Mar 2019 Photograph by Briana Gervat Equal parts poet, journalist, and art critic, Briana received her masters in Art History at the Savannah College of Art and Design. After graduating from SCAD…
Nature in the Now Polar Bear 22 Mar 2019 Who would I be if you died What version of myself—Would I be able to come up to you On the WWF poster and plead In front of all these…
Nature Poetry Cardinal Impulse 22 Mar 201919 Mar 2019 Splash of Crimson among the green Out of sync with the breeze’s consequence In tandem but also unsynced with Mate Mate, the color of white socks Washed with a Valentine’s…
Nature Poetry Welcome To a Rock 21 Mar 201917 Mar 2019 Inundated, air-bubbling rock - in - a- glass friend I shall emulate you, your prolific confusion of amber and pink and most of all green I have freed you of…
Nature in the Now March 20 Mar 2019 Spring so late, so desired, so faint. Great fronts collide. A spate of storms pit warm and cold in battlehold. Hail tatters, batters down where snow and drifted rain have…
Nature Poetry Ornithophily 20 Mar 201917 Mar 2019 Ornithophily Jared Green Does the heliotrope know of the subtle influence of sunbirds or the bellflower what transpires as the white-eye enters its throat? What does the ovule-summoned hummingbird make…
Nature in the Now moonbathing 19 Mar 2019 i have a late date tonight not with a lover though i wish that were the case it's an appointment with the moon my mother my goddess the muse that…
Nature Photography… Gourd Sounds 19 Mar 201919 Mar 2019 I am tempted, so tempted, to open up the gourd, cut its top and split its sides, to see the seeds that speak inside as the ocean speaks inside the…
Nature Photography… Forest Pain 18 Mar 201917 Mar 2019 Forest Pain I steal the Forest’s pain Hoping for forgiveness, Revelation or perhaps fame. Black cherry trees cankered by fungus Grow eructed, burled masses on their trunks, High and low…
Nature Photography… The Snake 17 Mar 201917 Mar 2019 The Snake by C.A. Shoultz A serpent in the desert turned his head To gaze upon me as I made my way Across the barren redness of the land, Whose…
