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Month: May 2021

Featured Poet

The Patrons by Featured Poet Chris La Tray

26 May 202126 May 2021
The Patron Saint of Abundant Cigarettes hunkers down under the cardboard bin in the alley behind Butterfly Herbs where offerings are made to them 24/7, in all kinds of weather,…
Hibernation

Winterscape

18 May 202117 May 2021
Veined leaves wrinkle and wither an anarchy of wind moves through them chills the bare bones of trees their icy pronged fingers frozen mid-air trunks of grey spines, stand raw…
Hibernation

Snow and Sky

16 May 202114 May 2021
  The sun tightens her flush kerchief around snow and sky, an inseparable bond. I wake to the thought of you, I sleep under your peaceful watch trusting the throat…
Hibernation

Persephone

15 May 202128 Apr 2021
Persephone Was she always like a moth against the flame desperate to get back to day, to planting season, held below against her will, tear-streaked prisoner on her underground throne?…
Hibernation

Threshold

14 May 202130 Apr 2021
Photograph by anne richardson anne richardson primarily is a poet though her recent passion includes photography. She believes in inviting images (asking them permission) into her camera or iPhone. That…
Hibernation

Sweeping Away the Clutter

13 May 202130 Apr 2021
Photograph by anne richardson anne richardson primarily is a poet though her recent passion includes photography. She believes in inviting images (asking them permission) into her camera or iPhone. That…
Hibernation

Dance of the Neurons

12 May 202130 Apr 2021
For me, a seizure is a timeless event. I don’t mean timeless in the sense that it is classic, to be lasting over decades; I mean that the seizure itself…
Featured Poet

828,000 Square-Miles by Featured Poet Chris LaTray

11 May 202112 May 2021
Did you happen to notice in the midst of all your best efforts at surviving that the other day marked the anniversary of the Louisiana Purchase? I’m not talking about…
Hibernation

Burying Treasure

11 May 202130 Apr 2021
Poem by Carol Wolf   Carol Wolf is a graphic designer and fine artist living in northern New Jersey. She received her BFA from the School of Art at The…
Hibernation

Toil Not and Neither Spin

10 May 202130 Apr 2021
My father believed in flowers. Winter winds blew away the petals. Broke the seed pods open. His body feeds a garden now One that waits for the sun’s return.  …
Hibernation

Mass Dragonfly Emergence

9 May 202128 Apr 2021
Photo by Martha Nance Martha Nance is a physician in Minnesota who blows the dust off the camera lens every summer to look at the world around her.
Hibernation

Step Away

8 May 202110 May 2021
  Step away from your heart. Let it rest a season, a year, more. As long as it takes. Let its soil rest. Become fallow. Let rain come. Then snow.…
Hibernation

Witch Brooms

7 May 202110 May 2021
Witch Brooms Some of us will not make it, expire singing the same chord with rattled tongues but don’t worry, we’ve signed our wills burned our love letters— water locust…
Hibernation

The Why of Trees

6 May 202128 Apr 2021
  Poem by Lou Storey   "The Why of Trees" speaks to both estrangement for family as a gay man, as well as the healing that nature provides. Writer, artist,…
Hibernation

Go There

5 May 202128 Apr 2021
go there there is nothing left but torn wrappings the smiles have faded the hoopla has changed the fire burned out the ashes are cold there is nothing left ……………………..…
Hibernation

My Hollow

4 May 202121 Apr 2021
  Photo by Gwynneth Green Gwynneth Green uses the camera and the written word to create Photo Musings, merging text within image inviting the viewer closer inspection that provides a…
Hibernation

Missing

3 May 202126 Apr 2021
Jessi sat contentedly in Jake Nez Winter’s warm, quiet presence as he drove into mustang country on the road that would get her closest to where she’d last seen a…
Hibernation

Nature Takes Its Own

1 May 202126 Apr 2021
Silence of the season: birds have fled, insects froze, frogs buried themselves in mud. Wind in bare branches, grasses rustling sounds. Time of change, seasons turning from growth to rest…

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2023 Submissions

Poetry of the Wild Flowers – Jan 1, 2023

Wings – May 1, 2023 

Focus on the beauty of birds in flight, or the power of flight to inspire…

Wetlands – July 15, 2023

Observe ecology of wetlands, or the importance of wetlands to our environment…

Clouds – Sept. 1, 2023

Examine the different types of clouds, or the way clouds can create a mood…

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