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Month: June 2019

Nature…

Driftwood; 1965

30 Jun 2019
‘According to Norse mythology, the first humans, Ask and Embla, were formed out of two pieces of driftwood, an ash and an elm, by the God Odin and his brothers,…
Nature…

Utqiagvik

30 Jun 201916 May 2019
We came in search of the whale’s back and instead, we found its heart.   -Poem by Vanna Boccadori -Photograph by Emily Cayer  
Nature…

A Sonnet for the Birds

28 Jun 2019
Anhingas and ravens crow for the emus, which parrot the moas and the kiwis of the Albatross Isles en paradisum’s view, where the petrels join the kites lofting freely  …
Nature…

BY A STREAM YOU COULD LEAP ACROSS, EASILY

28 Jun 201916 May 2019
From the speckled pond beneath the streetlamps, flit tiny fish. They venture out to the ripples, the ruffles the downhill run. They could be trout or some other tiny torpedo…
EARTH…

Brandy Station

26 Jun 201916 May 2019
- Photograph by John Kinney I teach ESL and Linguistics at Northern Virginia Community College. My photographs were recently published in the Nassau Journal and in Float Magazine. I am…
Nature…

Basking in the Sun, Heron Landing, Juvenile Eagle

25 Jun 2019
Photographs by Cynthia Connolly   I am Cynthia Connolly, a hobbyist photographer who recently discovered a love of birds and wildlife refuges. Luckily I live 10 minutes away from Nisqually…
EARTH…

The Mountain Lion

24 Jun 201930 Oct 2019
Through the smoke of wildfires, the mountain lion had the same tint as the moon— dark copper, as well as I could see through the haze that burned my eyes,…
EARTH…

AWASH IN THE DESERT

23 Jun 201920 May 2019
He stoops and rubs his hand across the rough stubble of the mown wheat and stares up into the noon sun which reflects like a beacon off the mostly empty…
Nature…

Toward an Arctic Circle

23 Jun 2019
There are lines we cross borders we step past where flesh and bone meet cranberries and club moss outside the truth I like to call our lower forty-eight. We paddle…
Nature

Birth of Rain

22 Jun 20199 May 2019
Leaves turn their backs on me silver sides flapping like huddled gossips whisper about the coming rain. Pregnant clouds bloom ripen into labor, they've been holding on for a cool,…
AIR…

Joining Friends

20 Jun 201920 May 2019
May morning on the White River   -Martha Nance Martha Nance is a physician whose iPhone was very happy a few years ago when it learned that it could take…
Nature…

just passing through

18 Jun 2019
walking this old timber among the grandsons of great oaks and hickory deep in creek and river bottoms or high on glacier formed bluffs I am struck by the fact…
EARTH…

Earth

17 Jun 201920 May 2019
-Jill Boyle Jill Boyles' photography has appeared in Literary Cargo, Passporte Gallery; Light, Space, Time Art Gallery; Forage Poetry and others. Her website is jillboylesphotographer.com.
Nature…

An Ode to Our Evening Walks

17 Jun 2019
Each day, we’re granted some reprieve, When, yapping brash, you beg to leave. We go. You’re always out in front. You track what’s left behind: a hunt For spots you…
Nature

The Wisdom of the Stream

16 Jun 201916 May 2019
The Wisdom of the Stream is in the depths, unfathomable murky, reminding me to be at ease with what is unseen, unknowable. The wisdom of the stream is in the…
EARTH…

Now, I am the Sunflower

15 Jun 201920 May 2019
I saw him once, He was riding his ivory gold chariot, From East to West. He would end his journey at the far sea. And everyday would come back home…
Nature…

Moon Meeting

15 Jun 2019
I have late night Conversations with the moon. She asks me about The sun and I Ask her about the pockmarks Dotting her skin. I tell her that I know…
AIR…

Late Spring

12 Jun 201919 May 2019
spring air is so enduring walk to that white maple metronome marking cadences footsteps over the ivy bridge a castle green-enrobed in herbs,perfume of Narcissus, hope luminous play in moonlit…
Nature…

4 Haiku

12 Jun 2019
Urges Pond ducklings belly flop Furious feet, motor tails — Minnows duck and hide Catnip Tail end of winter — Beside the fire, a striped cat Dreaming of tiger Harvest…
AIR…

The Bond

11 Jun 201919 May 2019
When I was just a speck of dust and floating through the verse, I dreamed that I'd become a planet, vast and more diverse. As luck would have it, there…
Nature…

Eye Stretching

10 Jun 2019
Rich men strive so industrious to dig up treasures from the ground, then build mansions illustrious on the nicest land they’ve found.   Timid animals choose holes to rest; lions,…
Nature

Wondertale Written on a Girl’s Body

9 Jun 201919 May 2019
They say I buried stone towns under walls of mud and cracked cities with tremors. I frosted the orange groves—kicked up an anthrax wind. Gasp, girl, people say, shoving me.…
Nature…

Ode to Things

7 Jun 2019
  -Rosalind Brenner Rosalind Brenner is a poet and painter/ stained glass artist living in East Hampton, NY. Her poetry has appeared in the literary journals: The Arroyo Review, Ontologica,…
AIR…

Journey North

7 Jun 201919 May 2019
Sirocco winds, birthed in the dune canyons of the Sahara, push out their breath with the strength of a woman in labor, echo the sounds of Oud, Kora, Shekere and…
Nature

Four Elements – Tiny Seed Literary Journal

6 Jun 20198 Jun 2019
Free E-Journal - click here pdf format of the journal available to download and free of charge Hard Copy  - click here softcover journal   About Blurb® We chose to publish our…
Nature

June 2019 Journal – Four Elements now published!

5 Jun 20198 Jun 2019
Free E-Journal - click here pdf format of the journal available to download and free of charge Hard Copy  - click here softcover journal or hardcover journal About Blurb® We chose to…
Nature…

To a Tree

4 Jun 2019
I have traced the pockmarks of your skin; and felt the record of your life. You let me see that every year a part of you must die so that…

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