Nature… 3 Broadsides 11 Nov 202011 Nov 2020 By Margaret McCarthy Margaret McCarthy brings the eye of a poet to her photography, exploring archetypes of myth and dream in her imagery. Exhibitions include: the Fogg Art Museum, The…
Where is Your Wild On Belonging 11 Nov 202010 Nov 2020 Dear Kimmy, Know this: You will never fit in. Take heart: This is good. Let me explain. You will grow up, youngest of three, the only girl, an oddball, left-handed.…
Nature Poetry… The Breath of Fall 11 Nov 20209 Nov 2020 Eagerly awaiting fall I am the breeze that nudges leaves from maple trees gone flaming red and soon I’m wind with strength to sway the pirouetting pointed leaves…
Nature Act III; Scene I 11 Nov 20209 Nov 2020 In the foothills autumn Nibbles at September, And the afternoon breeze Sighs a melancholy cry Of fading light and life. In the high country, Winter takes a bite Of…
Through the Eyes of Nature Best Dressed 10 Nov 20209 Nov 2020 Poem by Becky Falkum Becky Falkum holds a master’s degree in English from the University of St. Thomas, Minnesota and she is a member of the Society…
Nature… The Peach 10 Nov 20202 Nov 2020 I fell from the branch this morning landing with a thud on the sunny unkempt lawn bruised nectar slowly trickling out from a small tear in my skin birds diving…
Nature Poetry… Garden 10 Nov 20204 Nov 2020 He will not let her into the yard so she finds a knothole in the fence, a brown-edged telescope, peers inside: Love-Lies-Bleeding from its flocked, feathery fingers, its red…
Nature… Purple Skimmer 9 Nov 2020 By Nathaniel Frankland Nathaniel Frankland is a Yorkshireman who now lives in London. A French graduate, he currently plies his trade in the wine industry, but likes to spend much…
Nature… Twilight at Point Fermin 9 Nov 20204 Nov 2020 The family picnic breaks the way most do deciding what to bring or gather and drop in waste bins, things skipping away too fast to stop or recover, plaid…
Nature Photography… A warm golden sunset 9 Nov 20206 Nov 2020 Featured image - A Russet Adieu Photographs by Tisha Mendes Tisha Mendes, is an avid traveller since her birth and has travelled the world. She has experienced the fury of…
Nature… Tree is Me 8 Nov 20208 Nov 2020 The squirrels claw and climb the maple. I rarely spot one in the madrone. The maple provides them with many seeds, broad leaves to linger under, trunks and branches whose…
Nature Poetry… Hooked Fin 8 Nov 20204 Nov 2020 Twin cranes on the port wall hulked ten stories high. Further out, a barge stubbed the horizon. Ahead of the wind, a skiff crossed the channel with four men…
Where is Your Wild Morning Stroll 8 Nov 20205 Nov 2020 Green eyes witness bountiful beauties— Untrimmed blades of grass that glow yellow in morning sunlight, shimmering cool dewdrops in the colder morning air, which cradles the baby-blue horizon, wavering with…
Where is Your Wild A Poem About Love (Not A Love Poem) 7 Nov 20205 Nov 2020 The best way to hold on to something is to pay no attention to it. The things you love too much perish. Dmitri Shostakovich Around here, I never know how…
Nature Poetry… Working-Class Bird 7 Nov 20204 Nov 2020 The chickadee peeks From underneath his low little cap Tucks in his chin; Tutting at the cracks in the sidewalk He trips along And wonders how He ended up…
Nature Poetry… Area Loon Protests the Excessive Noise Pollution Produced by RVs of Nature-Seeking Tourists 7 Nov 20201 Nov 2020 I could live with the tents. Quiet, refined, polite little things that disturbed nothing, left nothing but a few stake holes stabbed behind. Even pop-ups, for all their…
Nature… Blue Heron 6 Nov 20204 Nov 2020 1. It’s your shadow I seek cool mystery. 2. I stood once, in a natural history museum under a California Condor, stuffed, exhibited, a cautionary note as eggs somewhere nearby…
Nature… Gullfoss Falls of Iceland 6 Nov 20201 Nov 2020 Who would ever guess that a broad river flowing down from distant pure white glaciers could drop so suddenly over a black lava rim only to turn sharply at a…
Nature Poetry… Cathedral of Bones 6 Nov 20201 Nov 2020 Hidden in the undergrowth Among bluebells galore Lay the carcass of a deer Who lives no more? Eyes, like starlight Reflect the moons gaze As the foxes inquire…
Nature… What Tangled Webs 5 Nov 20204 Nov 2020 Photograph by Briana Gervat Briana Gervat is an author and photographer based in New York who spends more time outdoors than in. More of her work can be found @brianagervat
Where is Your Wild A Study in Shadows 5 Nov 20204 Nov 2020 Photographs by Wen Lim. Wen is currently a business strategist for a tech firm in London, which means that she identifies as a strategy analyst by day…
Nature Poetry… Storm Petrel 5 Nov 202029 Oct 2020 Oh take your pity elsewhere, landlocked stranger, I am still waiting to burn. Yes, I was the soul bird of a dozen drowned sailors, was wave-walker, weathervane, Black…
Nature Photography… Macro look at the Micro Universe 5 Nov 20205 Nov 2020 Photo by Inaki Sanchez Iñaki Sánchez Ciarrusta is a photographer and storyteller from the Basque Country, Spain. Through his works, Iñaki tries to look at the world…
Nature Photography… Wild Alberta -Home and Away 4 Nov 20205 Nov 2020 Photos by Greg Turlock Greg Turlock is a published poet, author and photographer. His credits include “Rivers of Life”, award-winning poem from the 2019 Alberta Arts…
Through the Eyes of Nature California Poppies 4 Nov 20202 Nov 2020 Do not ask when we will open, our blooming like tides, cannot be hastened. First, pepper-like seeds proliferate, sprouting lacy tufts for leaves. If we seem as weeds where there…
Nature Echo Lake at Dawn 4 Nov 20201 Nov 2020 Photograph by Holley M. Hill Holley M. Hill found her voice as a poet and artist when she was ten years growing up in the wild woods of New England.…
Nature… Resurrection 3 Nov 20203 Nov 2020 By then I was learning to will things into being. By then I was leaning into trees. When the landscaper wrenched you from the ground to build a deck in…