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. …
Nature Upcoming submission opportunity 13 Aug 202113 Aug 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 The Silencing of Forests 13 Aug 20215 Aug 2021 Deep-soil water not enough for Sierra Nevada conifers with thirst to rising life sprung from aquifers, no aquitard stopping extraction of too much water evapotranspiration (leaves cooling themselves) from heat…
Anthology Forest The Forest Gift 12 Aug 20215 Jul 2021 The Forest Gift Eight miles down the trail and I feel the forest. No longer do I just see the trees, the Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, the Winter Firefly. Eight miles down…
Anthology Forest Touching Wood 11 Aug 20215 Jul 2021 Touching Wood This is not the place I thought it was coming here in disposable form impressionable as wet cement programed for success and failure in equal parts whatever fills…
Anthology Forest Us, Protectors 10 Aug 202125 Jun 2021 Us, Protectors Chain unchained Field afar Run hard mother daughter father The aroma of sweat and fear Mingles and clashes With the alpine odor of the wooded keep Demons on…
Anthology Forest Looking Down 9 Aug 202125 Jun 2021 Looking Down We’re supposed to look up and marvel at the soaring treetops, lofty branches reaching to the heavens – a vaulted cathedral ceiling. I look down and find miracles…
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