Nature… The Universe is a Loud Place 30 May 2019 NASA has recorded the interactions of electromagnetic particles from solar wind, ionosphere, and planetary magnetosphere, and translated these vibrations into sound waves. Lie on your back on the front…
WATER Love and Water 30 May 201916 May 2019 After a full body massage my body is an ocean—I swim inside it. I saw the creator there; no, I felt the creator; no, I knew the creator and she…
Nature… Ladybug, Ladybug 27 May 2019 Roly-poly firebug, round as a gumdrop, alights on a jumper, blazing like Lucifer. She glows, all splotched with hot coal dots-- bright button stitched on a Sunday frock. …
AIR… Cicada 27 May 201918 May 2019 seven, ten, seventeen years away and interred, churning the fecund rot until a soundless alarm directs them skyward they emerge from their quasi-graves…
EARTH… Will to Life 24 May 201919 May 2019 one over nothing in succession in the covering this of the new snow soundlessly the hills the environs unfolding toward somewhere migratory instinct lightly threaded overhead I admit I know…
Nature… August 24 May 2019 the sliced peach heavy with juice glistens on the summer plate chunks torn from the pit jagged where red life seeped into the yellow flesh chewy skin dried…
WATER Aqua Botanica: Offerings from the Sea 22 May 201916 May 2019 Aqua Botanica preserves seaweed washed up on the western shores of Newfoundland, and captures both its essence and its dimensionality. The series speaks to the capacity of art to transform…
Nature… Ferns 21 May 2019 The hardy, Irish wild fern sits in the dark, wet garden of my childhood. I scrape its black spores off the back of its body - spores that won't…
Nature… Mulberry Storm 20 May 201918 May 2019 Heaven howled at sundown then all night pelted every window shook every door reminding me when I was a child and the great aunts turned off the radio and all…
Nature… Owl Eye 18 May 2019 All thinking stop for a moment, at least, so I might look this owl in his pitch black eyeball of shine and sorrow and ask him please, to show me…
EARTH… Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Pinecone 17 May 20197 May 2019 Petrified artichoke; miniature pineapple; flowerless bud; raccoon’s shuttlecock; scepter of seeds; mosquitoes' drinking cup; snout of the bear that follows you home; Fibonacci's dreamscape; 3-D mandala; missile launched by squirrel…
Nature… Three Haiku 16 May 2019 Full pothole on a dry road - splash! * Leaf fall - spiders bursting from the web * Bumbling along behind glass - first bee of spring - James…
EARTH… Something of the Marvelous 15 May 201913 May 2019 Amy Stonestrom is an emerging writer from western Wisconsin. She is currently an MFA candidate in Bay Path University's creative nonfiction program. Her essays and photography have been published in…
Nature… pheromone dysphoria 13 May 2019 if only the bees would swarm for me but i am not proficient in the queen’s english yet i must insist my musk speaks matriarchy -Vivian Ia Vivian Ia lives…
AIR… Drips of Dew 12 May 20197 May 2019 Long ago and far away, atop a mountain, Promises were made. Ideal, naive selves present. Words without witness fall too easily to the ground. Do they splash or…
