EARTH… ODE TO SAND (Indiana Dunes) 29 Apr 2019 ODE TO SAND (Indiana Dunes) by Steve Brammell Henry Chandler Cowles, at the University of Chicago, developed a more formal concept of succession. Cowles studied vegetation development on the ever…
Nature… Transition 27 Apr 2019 Photograph by Myron L. Pulier Myron L. Pulier is a clinical associate professor of psychiatry at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.
Nature in the Now Black Pond Road, Cape Cod 24 Apr 2019 Photograph by John Greiner-Ferris I worked as a corporate photographer/writer for years. In 2007 I put the camera down and dedicated myself full-time to the theater: acting, writing plays, forming…
Nature… Cultivating Joy 21 Apr 2019 Chocolate eggs sprout in the yard Armed with a whicker basket You’re on the hunt Tulips bloom in cascading colours Red speckled with black You pause In awe of a…
Nature… I Know You 19 Apr 2019 - Austrie Martinez Austrie Martinez is an Air Force veteran and internationally published writer. Her work has been published in the Baltimore Fishbowl, Into the Void Magazine, UNBLOC Zine and…
Nature in the Now Altar 17 Apr 2019 Photograph by Nathan Holloway Nathan Holloway is a poet, photographer, and composition instructor living in rural Arkansas and documenting the experience of being rural, queer, and southern. You can find…
Nature Photography Fern 16 Apr 20195 Apr 2019 Fern - from the Nature Blues Series. Photograph by Libby Young. I am a photographer based in Cape Town, South Africa. I am working on a series of botanical and…
Nature… Samara 15 Apr 2019 - Julie Martin A poet and a public school teacher, Julie Martin lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota with her husband and two teenage sons. Her poetry has appeared in Alpha…
Nature Poetry Hushed Morning 14 Apr 201912 Apr 2019 The sun struggles to stand up tall, above the horizon. The blue sky of morning drags behind the yellow rays, Brushes away the purples of night. Birds chirp, eagerly, beyond…
Nature Seedlings 12 Apr 201911 Apr 2019 The soft earth below my toes gleans the soil to swaddle these tiny seeds... readying their sprouts to rise towards sunup... that magnificent moment rarely witnessed... where emptiness becomes growth where…
Nature… Color by Letters 12 Apr 2019 for T.H. Every day Trevor posts a new painting on Facebook, his pace matching the Vermont winter’s tenacity of days following snow that follow nights following snow. This morning, above…
Nature Poetry Going 10 Apr 20195 Apr 2019 I think sometimes in silence are sweet tales because what else am I? lying leaves, baring trees springing wintered truth that haunts in the shadows of summer Blindly, butterfly-searching youth…
Nature… Seasons of Life 9 Apr 2019 Photograph by Sofia Martimianakis Sofia Martimianakis is an avid hiker, writer and photographer based in Toronto. She completed her undergraduate degree in Literary Studies at the University of Toronto and…
Nature Grieving Through Nature By Carol Flake Chapman 8 Apr 20198 Apr 2019 During the first few terrible weeks after my husband died in a kayaking accident on a wild river in Guatemala, I wondered why something so momentous and truly awful could…
Nature Poetry Robed In Vines 7 Apr 20195 Apr 2019 There were young Trees— reaching with fruitless branches into dreamless stew — wishing they had never welcomed the stranger vines, which creep toward their tips, filching the clean air of…
Nature… Zack in April 7 Apr 2019 - Maureen O'Brien Maureen O'Brien teaches Creative Writing to inspiring and amazing teens.
Nature Poetry Bulbs 6 Apr 20195 Apr 2019 Small seeds within a face, growing through flesh like saplings bursting from soil. A lilac from a nose – purple rooted in cartilage – A daffodil sprouts from a forehead…
Nature Poetry Uneven and Inclined 5 Apr 2019 I used to be the number Nine (uneven orbit, and inclined). But over time, so much had changed. To redefine, left me estranged. A core of rock, and crust of…
Nature Poetry Ode against a dying tree 5 Apr 2019 See the breath, cold tree, flowing out from near to far Smoky-stop, I don’t know why this breath disperses, pooling leaves turn gray Even young blind nature with all its…
Nature in the Now Flight of Fancy 5 Apr 2019 - Terry Bodine A graduate of the College of William & Mary, Terry Hall Bodine works as housing coordinator at University of Lynchburg. Recent publication credits include Roanoke Review, Scintilla,…
Nature Poetry The Waterfall 4 Apr 201925 Mar 2019 The well-worn trail follows the river through the fern-covered forest floor amongst great trees with greater canopies. The steady roar of water prompts the hiker to persevere. Feet compress soil…
Nature in the Now seduction of winter’s lover by spring’s first warmth 4 Apr 2019 - LQ McDonald III LQ reads everything he can get his hands on, writes everything he can wrap his heart around, and generally enjoy words in all their whimsy. When…
Nature Photography Dune 3 Apr 201925 Mar 2019 Photograph by Cassandra Alfred. A native of Rockland County, N.Y., Cassandra works as a Registered Nurse. Despite this career choice, Cassandra has a passion for the arts. With the…
Nature in the Now The Cubit of Necessity 3 Apr 2019 It would be unnecessary To document the Blue-jay Coursing from branch to fragile branch In the biblical signature of wind. But I’m writing this poem For you, whether you read…
