Hibernation Stimulus Gratitude 30 Apr 202126 Apr 2021 Carefully emerging from social seclusion we join the ranks of world famous hibernators _______hedgehogs, wood frogs, _______turtles, snakes, snails, _______bumblebees, bats and bears fellow creatures that innately understand the when…
Hibernation A Large Bear Swims 29 Apr 202126 Apr 2021 The shadow shape in front of me looks almost normal, walking afternoon roads. Arms, almost shapely. Body, almost proportional. None of that pear-shaped loping; this seems almost a jaunt. My…
Hibernation Beneath Route 32 28 Apr 202126 Apr 2021 A winter-dried branch snapped as I walked to the creekside with my mother. She wore her waders and rubber gloves and had already begun her study; patiently, she sifted for…
Hibernation Winter’s Omen 27 Apr 202126 Apr 2021 When the sun called me to worship I stood alone near the oak tree legs, roots reaching down leaves, skin soaking in sustenance and relished what was soft what was…
Hibernation Coming From Frozen 27 Apr 202126 Apr 2021 I wonder how the green frog feels at the end of winter, buried in mud under a waterbody, body diffused with glucose so that crystals cannot form to pierce a…
Featured Poet Featured Poet Chris LaTray – Seed 26 Apr 202130 Apr 2021 If an entire world might exist on a mote of pollen clinging to the flower of a thistle, then what about the blueberry seed wedged into the chasm of my…
Hibernation Deliverance 26 Apr 202120 Apr 2021 DELIVERANCE welcome deliverance into darkness in spite of dread come outside beneath a new moon if there is a candle—blow it out sit with the absence. stand before the cold…
Nature Burlapped Bushes 25 Apr 2021 Shaking snow from bamboo leaves, relieving arcing necks wet weight, is task enough with fat flakes plummeting I consider jangling our bushes less blanketed than buried. Then re-consider, considering my…
Hibernation Rest 23 Apr 202121 Apr 2021 Photo filter High contrast evening Palest pink laurels against khaki brown bark Light and lime and blue green leaves Starkly verdant Contradicting deepest black shadows Light against dark Life against…
Lessons from the Wild Dance of the Hurricane 23 Apr 202111 Apr 2021 Feet slow, gentle, serene. Dance, twirling, hair flowing. Grey eye cast across the sky. Tempo slow. Anxious clouds come and go. Cautious steel worms rattle in the wind. Concrete towers,…
Hibernation Shape Changer 22 Apr 202119 Apr 2021 I am Kaaryla, a tiny possum, at the risk of appearing glib, this is my story. Back in a time of Dreaming, I was a victim of a vindictive spirit.…
Hibernation Snake Tree 21 Apr 202114 Apr 2021 Poem by Russell Willis Ethicist and online education entrepreneur, Russell Willis, emerged as a poet in 2019. Since then, his poetry has been published (or accepted for publication) in…
Hibernation The birds outside kept me alive 20 Apr 20217 Apr 2021 The birds outside kept me alive They arrived in groups of two, bearing humble buildings blocks of home, of spring. I watched. They shone in winter sunlight, a symbol…
Anthology Forest Submission Opportunity 19 Apr 2021 Anthology Forest Theme: Relationship between Forests and Human Communities Forests evoke something different from all of us. For some, a peaceful place with nature sounds, others think of adventure, awe,…
Hibernation Birds at Bayside 19 Apr 20217 Apr 2021 Birds at Bayside How perfect the balance of countercurrent heat exchanger in winter’s gull as it keeps her feet from cooling to a frostbite. Intertwining arteries and veins regulate…
Hibernation The Rest of Blizzards 18 Apr 20217 Apr 2021 The Rest of Blizzards I sense the uninvited cold needles coming. Winds howling calling my name. Steeling myself against sharp ice cutting slicing ears, eyes, hair. Needing to rest my…
Hibernation Sunny Morning After the Big Blizzard 17 Apr 20217 Apr 2021 SUNNY MORNING AFTER THE BIG BLIZZARD The weight of it settled and still, the world quiet except for birds around their feeder, and the furnace like the engine of a…
Hibernation Bearish the Heart of Imagination 16 Apr 20217 Apr 2021 Bearish the Heart of Imagination I wake every morning like a bear out of hibernation sniffing the air, listening, focusing my eyes trying to see what my den of dreams…
Hibernation Because our Roots are in Rivers, Not Latin 15 Apr 202114 Apr 2021 Poem by Beth Piatote Beth Piatote is the author of The Beadworkers: Stories, and Nez Perce, enrolled with Colville Confederated Tribes. She is committed to Indigenous language…
Hibernation nearly cave 14 Apr 20217 Apr 2021 nearly cave black spots black bear emerge let down quickly by the sun all the gardening has been in disarray and undone there’s no medal, you know, for any…
Hibernation The Great Chase 13 Apr 202114 Apr 2021 Photo by Kathyrn McDanel Kathryn McDanel is a nomad who never travels without her camera, moleskin journal, or thermos of coffee.
Hibernation the home and the body 12 Apr 20217 Apr 2021 the home and the body a wandering leaf on the tea kettle, boiling like the blackness of captains abandoning ship: this is what the morning did to me and what…
Hibernation How to Grow Baby’s Breath 11 Apr 20217 Apr 2021 How to Grow Baby’s Breath Let Spring Equinox untangle the baby’s breath of your exhaustion. Be gentle with yourself, but if the buds fall, hold them, the pieces of spirit…
Featured Poet… Featured Poet Chris LaTray – Comet 11 Apr 202110 Apr 2021 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…
Hibernation Winter Solstice Sun 10 Apr 20217 Apr 2021 Winter solstice sun I took my lunch outside today, quite late, to sit on a metal chair whose chill struck deep. My hands…
Hibernation Flower Mill 9 Apr 20213 Apr 2021 It isn’t yet spring, but if she puts an ear to the ground where the snow has thawed, she’ll sometimes catch the sound of mills grinding below. She whispers into…
