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 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 Writing 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 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 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 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,…
