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Month: August 2021

Anthology Forest

Mono Wind

31 Aug 202122 Aug 2021
The sudden arrival of a violent windstorm Appeared to be quite mysterious, Winds that swooped down west slopes To the lowest hills and canyons Of the Sierra Nevada mountain span,…
Anthology Forest

recipe for indigenous microorganisms (IMOs) – Korean Natural Farming

30 Aug 202122 Aug 2021
1. cook 6 cups of white rice with 4 cups of water. the world felt heavy last night, saturated sponge limp in my hand that i observe painfully yet removed.…
Anthology Forest

5-4-3-2-1: the forest is a mindset

29 Aug 202122 Aug 2021
5. see vultures patrolling the roof. wrens nesting light fixtures. squirrels foraging the road’s edge. geese hiking sidewalk less traveled. 4. feel grass on elbows and who greets you. it’s…
Anthology Forest

Making Worlds

28 Aug 202122 Aug 2021
The birds, who I am still just beginning to know, despite my sixty-five years, despite my inability to call them out by name-- they’ve been singing continuously and with vigor…
Anthology Forest

American Landscape

27 Aug 202122 Aug 2021
For Henry Glassie If you want to know what happened, throw stones in the forest until birds forfeit the trees and clouds tear open, letting the sky loose again. Control…
Lessons from the Wild…

Outdoor Conversations

27 Aug 202127 Aug 2021
  Sky and trees touching to bend light   their branches and boughs bowing to the earth   as wind blows softly to a breeze   of uplift and down…
Anthology Forest

Ever Again

26 Aug 202122 Aug 2021
When those huddled together beneath it walked away, The paprika-colored ground went along with them, An autumn Hansel and Gretel trail danced around their feet, Crackling, rustling, and smelling of…
Anthology Forest

Long Winter

25 Aug 202122 Aug 2021
Leaves fall, Like tears from Branches, With an indifferent majesty Regal grace, A feeling of sadness Overcomes, At the thought Of a cold Winter's chill, Creeping upon them As Winter's…
Anthology Forest

Snag

24 Aug 202122 Aug 2021
Poem by anne richardson   anne richardson is a poet, chaplain, spiritual companion, labyrinth facilitator, and Reiki master and believes everyone’s story is sacred. She finds her poetic voice in…
Nature

Upcoming Submission Opportunity

23 Aug 20212 Sep 2021
Apaja’simk – To Return  Submissions open on Submittable Oct 1 through Nov 1, 2021 What does it mean to ‘return’? We invite poets and photographers to capture the essence of…
Anthology Forest

Once

23 Aug 202121 Aug 2021
I walked through the woods as if I had to get where I was going. Now, I walk as though I have already arrived.     Poem by Byron Hoot…
Featured Poet…

‘You and I’ by Featured Poet: Alicia Hayden

22 Aug 202116 Aug 2021
  Poem 'You and I' and drawing 'Bumblebee' by Alicia Hayden, Rain before Rainbows 2020   I am an award-winning poet and artist from North Yorkshire, with a degree in…
Anthology Forest

Benediction: Stonegate Farm

22 Aug 202121 Aug 2021
The apple tree used to be there The pear trees huddled over there Right before the forest Ancient trees bonding to the earth Each replenishing the other. We created Camp…
Anthology Forest

Pines

21 Aug 202111 Aug 2021
The light empties into the sea whose shore is the horizon. In the darkening valley, silhouettes of steeples, thousands of steeples.   The murmuring voices of the congregations.    …
Anthology Forest

Composition

20 Aug 202111 Aug 2021
There is a body somewhere in these woods. We follow the dogs' noses, prod deep into hollows where the land holds the memory of bygone trees. Our probes break through…
Anthology Forest

Symbol of Freedom

19 Aug 202111 Aug 2021
Over the deserts and mountain peaks Through entwined vines and branches of trees Tracing the horizon when the sunsets in Birds were born to charm the world we live in.…
Anthology Forest

Forestial Fairness

18 Aug 202111 Aug 2021
Wooden trunks tower above the horizon anchoring themselves as life connectors from Earth’s roots to the heavens above.   Myriads of diverse multicolored fauna attached to timber gleam across the…
Anthology Forest

Another Dark Place

17 Aug 202114 Aug 2021
In a dark time, the eye begins to see. — Theodore Roethke   Shallow breath is winter’s way of breathing; I am double-masked walking in the woods, with fogged glasses;…
Anthology Forest

Amazon Appendix

16 Aug 202120 Sep 2021
Shake your bedding before retiring shake your shoes every morning replenish often your repellant show reasonable sense about jungle fever and expect you will have to learn to deal with…
Anthology Forest

Dance in the Old-Growth Forest

15 Aug 202114 Aug 2021
Hemlock, Douglas fir and Sitka spruce stand tall and groan, dancing their rooted dance. In the canopy pileated woodpeckers hacksaw giant crowns. Tanagers lift their wings to the topmost branches.…
Anthology Forest

Voicing the Woods

14 Aug 202114 Aug 2021
I said I had the tree. It wasn't true. The opposite was true. The tree had me.                          …

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