Nature… Envisioning A Clay Dove That Takes Flight 30 Mar 202029 Mar 2020 I was given a miniature clay dove to be my guardian the day living with bipolar disorder became my reality. I placed her on my bedroom windowsill as a…
Nature… Spruce 29 Mar 20206 Mar 2020 Tall majesty, Tiny cones, Winter snow cover, Cool summer shade. You were my cave, my playhouse. All of your branches, protected me from all of my Enemies, From Unknown armies…
Nature… Stages of Life 28 Mar 20206 Mar 2020 Photograph by Kip Knott Kip Knott is a teacher and an art dealer who travels the Midwest and Appalachia in search of lost treasures. His full-length collection of poetry—Tragedy, Ecstasy,…
Nature… Leaves 27 Mar 20206 Mar 2020 Gathering golds, reds, and browns, making mountains just to tear them down. Stepping twenty paces back, admiring. Suddenly lungs struggle to pump the cold, crisp air. Legs gliding, feet barely…
Nature… Map girl Forest 26 Mar 20206 Mar 2020 Find us tucked in a spine of herbal remedies. The spikes of Earth’s fuzzy head tickling the honeysuckle toe buds flowing from sandstone jugs. We graze along the spotted fawns’…
Nature… Ocean Breeze 25 Mar 20206 Mar 2020 Wonders from the ocean I glimpsed last year Are calling me back, alone this time No camera, no crowd. Let me lie next to the water, let gravity pull my…
Nature… Elusive 24 Mar 20206 Mar 2020 - Gerard Sarnat Gerard Sarnat is a physician, executive, academic and social activist. Gerry is an MD who’s built and staffed current homeless and ex-prisoner clinics as well as a…
Nature… Maple Tree 22 Mar 20206 Mar 2020 A maple tree begins as a seed. The soil bears nourishment and water gives life. The sun brings opportunity. Grow, child. The maple tree grows. Your branches reach for Heaven…
Nature… Corn Lilies 21 Mar 20206 Mar 2020 Winter breaking, spring in the making I was hiking through sage brush when melting snow revealed green shoots lily namesakes for stalks of cereal crop kernels feeding humans and livestock.…
Nature… Thingvellir, Iceland 20 Mar 20206 Mar 2020 Walk through these broken skins of Earth. You will see the world tearing apart. You feel like you might tear along with it. Was that the groans of a ruptured…
Nature… Black Swallowtail Caterpillars on Hairy Angelica 19 Mar 20202 Mar 2020 -Photograph by Richard Lebovitz Richard Lebovitz is a former educator and magazine editor in Atlanta. He is currently involved in rescuing native plants and creating habitats to replace environments lost…
Nature… The Great Egret on Calico Creek 18 Mar 20202 Mar 2020 The egret stakes out a place in the shallows, waiting for the tide to deliver the day's fresh catch. With the sun brightening its pristine plumage, it grows ever more…
Nature… Two Keys 17 Mar 20202 Mar 2020 -Jamie Nix Jamie Nix began writing poetry when she was in 3rd grade, but did not begin sharing her poetry until 23yo. She had her first poem published with Z…
Nature… Dream of Trees 16 Mar 20203 Mar 2020 —“the deepest-rooted dream of a tree is to walk even just a little way, from the place next to the doorway—to the edge of the river of life, and to…
Nature… Fireflies 15 Mar 20202 Mar 2020 Crippled leaves rub against each other, cracked bows on rusted strings that sing into the falling moonlight. Their song vibrates on the wind filled with fireflies but is quickly stilled…
Nature… Berries 14 Mar 202029 Feb 2020 You got me three black raspberry plants for Mother's Day from an heirloom seed catalogue. Jewel Black Raspberries: the listing said hearty, vigorous, erect, glossy black balls of fruit. We…
Nature… Hedge 13 Mar 202029 Feb 2020 Braided into the honeysuckle that chokes the hedge You’ve chosen to trim today under full sun And with a fool’s determination to finish quickly, A garter snake unlaces the vines…
Nature… Looking Back III 12 Mar 202029 Feb 2020 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 in…
Nature… Looking Back II 11 Mar 202029 Feb 2020 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 in…
Nature… Three Seed Photographs 10 Mar 20206 May 2020 Photographs by Roger Camp I discovered Big-Leaf Maple seed pods for the first time when I was living on Cape Cod. The locals grew up playing with them as children,…
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