Nature… Seven Seconds 31 Dec 201930 Sep 2019 A leaf separates from a twig on a tree tumbling for seven seconds on a journey to the ground. For seven seconds a pedestrian crosses a busy intersection before…
Nature Winter at the Lake 30 Dec 201930 Sep 2019 Winter at the Lake - artwork by Neil Berkowitz Neil Berkowitz is a photographic artist and printmaker living in Seattle, Washington. His current work layers multiple iPhone photographic…
Nature… Think of the Trees 29 Dec 201930 Sep 2019 I wonder have you ever thought about a tree? the roots that travel deep into the dirt holding secrets the trunk that stands firm keeping it safe when the wind…
Nature The Hemlocks 28 Dec 201930 Sep 2019 I wait all day to see the magic of early evening light stream through the forest gather on hemlock needles in small, radiant pearls. So different from the day’s…
Nature… Choir 27 Dec 201930 Sep 2019 Choir First appeared in Survival: Trees, Tides, Song - 2019, Finishing Line Press I sing in a Forrest Choir. It’s me and the trees. Tall slim trunks standing in…
Nature And the Trees Dance 26 Dec 201930 Sep 2019 The forest breathes into the silences and the sounds ...the bellows of the gods Life breathing in ...waiting...resting...replenishing… in the peace of nature...the infinite now This deep inhale...the…
Nature… Tree Bark Square 24 Dec 201930 Sep 2019 Tree Bark Square - Photo by Roger Camp. Roger Camp is the author of three photography books including the award-winning Butterflies in Flight, Thames & Hudson, 2002 and Heat, Charta, Milano,…
Nature… Huon Pine 22 Dec 201930 Sep 2019 A lock of enchantment, the Huon Pine Forest thrives, its golden wood now left untouched by the forest’s logging boys, Casanovas of money, the ones who once were allowed to…
Nature OLD SYCAMORE 20 Dec 201930 Sep 2019 The tree enchants the riverbank, so wide, gnarled and hollow, its skin beneath the shedding bark a mottled map, an abstract painter’s canvas, its limbs and branches turning white as…
Nature… Michigan Trees 18 Dec 201930 Sep 2019 Photos by Elizabeth Paxson Elizabeth Paxson is a poet, writer and visual artist, and graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy and Minneapolis College of Art. She resides in…
Nature… Earth’s Magnetic North Pole 17 Dec 201911 Nov 2019 Erasure poem based on “Earth’s Magnetic North Pole Has Officially Moved”. Trevor Nace. Forbes. February 5, 2019. - Julie Martin A poet and a public school teacher, Julie Martin lives…
Nature We are all the leaves of one tree … 16 Dec 201930 Sep 2019 Laying, I among the tree litter, feeling the moist earth beneath me. Rain lightly blessing my face, my shoulders, my brown brittle body is drenched in life’s abundance. Basking in…
Nature… Digital Age Pobiz 14 Dec 201930 Sep 2019 Thanks to Chestnut Review’s debut I’ve been writing and submitting for publication maybe a decade plus or minus during which time manual process has d/ evolved from printing paper…
Nature Smile 13 Dec 20198 Nov 2019 - Photograph by Jerome Berglund Jerome Berglund graduated summa cum laude from the cinema-television production program at the University of Southern California, and has spent much of his career working…
Nature Super-Sweet Peach 12 Dec 201930 Sep 2019 Blossoms in May, fruiting in June. You shade the backyard. You flirt with the squirrels. You nourish the groundhogs. Shrouded in netting, yet still you are pillaged, and…
Achene… Colorado 11 Dec 201918 Dec 2019 Holy Southwestern Eternity, painted red Where as kids we split two hemispheres. A river Through the canyons, and to our left: The cold banks of the beginning (before our birth,…
Nature… Long Sleep 10 Dec 201930 Sep 2019 Tangerine and blood orange maples exhort radiance against a dark doze of furred pines clad in verdant mink needles, awaiting first snow. Trees sing hallelujah harmonies in lemon soprano…
Nature… Ode to a Tree Trunk 9 Dec 20198 Nov 2019 Out of pine-crusted hill, where wild turkeys once galumphed from tree branch to tree branch, you towered over the cabin. Maybe that’s why they picked you, the beetles. With sleek,…
Nature Tree at Crematorium III 8 Dec 201930 Sep 2019 Black pit charred and split open at the birch's Base parted like plundered legs left open broken black. The land stripped once of all green grows again green.…
Nature… Spring in the Forest Near Stanley 6 Dec 201930 Sep 2019 Sapling roots knuckle the earth as green shoots summon visions fresh buds line raw creeks. Water spirits nurture torrents of white crescendos flooding down from alpine heights. Loggers rapped…
Nature… Young Blues 4 Dec 201930 Sep 2019 You share your life on wings of scent, unadulterated tree breathing in the night, allow me a bed close by in grass. Bless your branches, let them untangle my…
