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Month: January 2020

Nature…

Last Leaves

30 Jan 202014 Dec 2019
First snow on last leaves thin on the branch morning’s snow weighs down each leaf. Still on the greener side of yellow, the leaves absorb the insult then slough their…
Nature…

My Body Like a Hug

29 Jan 202021 Jan 2020
I’m        so low down in the dumps, woebegone, weeping, heartsick, wiped out, bummed out, crummy, melancholic, gutted, glum, my stomach hurts, and if I let myself lay…
Nature…

Southern Snow

28 Jan 202021 Jan 2020
His daughter is too young to remember the last time the sky fell. From this hill on Highland golf course they can see Birmingham’s abandoned downtown towers and hear the…
Nature…

The Cracked Chestnut Tree

27 Jan 202030 Sep 2019
When I behold what you’ve been to me I stand alone far beneath this place we’ve felt and known. Where every bitter root leaves its scar for the sky to…
Nature…

Cattails

26 Jan 202014 Dec 2019
Ten thousand prairie thuribles in the breeze, chained roots unmoved by hard blows, sticks of incense burn on the wind’s breath, seeds like ashes, ashes blown to dust.   -John…
Nature…

Of Earth

25 Jan 202014 Dec 2019
-Photograph by Marina Leigh My name is Marina Leigh. I am an English major and photography minor at the University of Nevada, Reno. I focus on incorporating both documentary and…
Nature…

Owl and Owlet

24 Jan 202014 Dec 2019
-Photograph by Greg Clary   Greg Clary is Professor Emeritus of Rehab and Human Services at Clarion University, in NW Pennsylvania. His photographs have been published in The Sun Magazine,…
Nature…

Autumn Blitz 

23 Jan 202030 Sep 2019
Wondering winds transcended upon treetops      Layers of light reflected -  hues of red, orange and yellows splashed brilliance                off the lively leaves in their dancing descent of the Fall Flight!…
Nature…

Planet Earth Haiku

22 Jan 202014 Dec 2019
-derived from natural facts presented in the BBC Planet Earth series   Lakes of lava in molten Ethiopia — Hell’s ceiling on earth   Gobi desert snow disobeys physical law…
Nature…

Here

21 Jan 202021 Jan 2020
Here In the heart of the forest Where the silence is thunderous Where the deep green rises and blocks out the sun Where the flowers that blanket the forest floor…
Nature…

Beavertail Park The Island of Jamestown, Rhode Island

20 Jan 202023 Nov 2019
“We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.” ― William James   We are rock climbing gently, like the ancient goats we…
Nature…

Her Trees

19 Jan 202030 Sep 2019
(A tribute to Emily Carr)   Wind-kissed elegance Reaching, resisting breakage Rain stoked courage   Screaming shades of green against impossible blue. Sun-fueled persistence   Confident wisdom Pointing elders, sapling…
Nature…

in that way we are the same

18 Jan 202019 Jan 2020
Black bird with red wings yellow-tipped feathers like a funny knit hat with a golden bell. He breathes in the October morning, breathes out his song. The notes catch on…
Nature…

Love and a Black Walnut Tree

17 Jan 202030 Sep 2019
We watched her grow, begin to produce green-covered nuts. He counted and guarded each one, as if to ready for war.   Perched by the window, he threw rocks at…
Nature…

10.11.19

16 Jan 202014 Dec 2019
10.11.19 7.57 a.m. 50 degrees Pillaging the leaves that remain on the trees, this heavy wind ostracizes the landscape at the same time the landscape becomes flamboyant, neoteric, spectacular. And…
Nature…

Breathe

14 Jan 202023 Nov 2019
Every Sunday morning Buddha wakes us up reposed just as he was the night before when sleep delivered our tense and hurried minds from the world Every Sunday morning he…
Nature

Autumn Fog and Early Spring

13 Jan 202030 Sep 2019
Autumn Fog and Early Spring - photos by John McCluskey  John McCluskey has published visual art, poetry, fiction, and non-fiction in literary and commercial publications worldwide. His most recent photo…
Nature

Hindsight in 2020

12 Jan 2020
Nature Poetry and Photography   Submissions open January 15, 2020 on Submittable!
Nature…

Jedediah Smith State Park

11 Jan 202030 Sep 2019
Her girth renders mute, her beauty a heartache   to witness. Reduced, feel her skin, run hands up her body. To be inside another living thing —a comfort. She teaches…
Nature…

Swarm (green darners feeding)

10 Jan 202017 Nov 2019
Every evening they draw me down to the water where I stretch out my arms with my head bent back and stand in the center of a storm, thousands of…
Nature…

A Group of Trees Huddling to Keep Warm in the Winter

9 Jan 202030 Sep 2019
Photo by Tisha Maria Mendes   The Author loves travelling and exploring new places. She is very close to Nature and through her photography, she captures the pristine beauty of Nature. she has…
Nature

Finding Time is Beauty on a Georgia Barrier Island

8 Jan 202027 Dec 2019
Day -- In the wisdom of his book on Time-Consciousness, heavy with words, concepts bones of a great explanation, Edmund Husserl looks into a garden at an apple tree blooming,…
Nature…

Plexus

7 Jan 202030 Sep 2019
That which sparks between my ears Enters orderly, in charged lines. Not just what cerebrum hears, What toe, disc, bone, gut, declines Or agrees to relay from the world: Circuit,…
Nature…

Five Minutes Before Winter

6 Jan 202017 Nov 2019
Five minutes before winter, everything stops.   The sky opens up. Silence penetrates the air.   And so the story goes, without beginning or an end.   A finger points…
Nature…

Magnolia

5 Jan 202030 Sep 2019
Most May trees are tentative their tiny sparks of leaves testing, tasting but here and there is one all out of order its pop of blossoms first rebels whose flagrant…
Achene…

rise

4 Jan 2020
yesterday we painted dawn gray; we drenched the clouds in dust & mourning dew; we wrapped the leaves in wire, ignored the way they flickered and shook, but tomorrow morning,…
Nature

Happy Earthday

3 Jan 202030 Sep 2019
Photo by Nancy Bouyoucos. The natural world is the theme of my work. I think beauty, and the protection of beautiful moments, are healing and vital in this current environmental…

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Chris La Tray is a Métis writer and storyteller. His first book, One-Sentence Journal: Short Poems and Essays From the World At Large (2018, Riverfeet Press) won the 2018 Montana Book Award and a 2019 High Plains Book Award. His next book, Becoming Little Shell, will be published by Milkweed Editions in Spring 2022. Chris is an enrolled member of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians and lives near Missoula, Montana.
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