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…
Featured Poet… Leopard by Featured Poet: Alicia Hayden 8 Aug 202114 Aug 2021 First, I took amber and fire And I had his eyes. Then I took sunset and dawn And I had his coat. I added charcoal and ink And I had…
Anthology Forest Easter Morning 8 Aug 202125 Jun 2021 Easter Morning Forgive me, dear friends and family, for not being at church this morning. I was attending seven o’clock service in the chapel of the woods. Likely you haven’t…
Anthology Forest Understory 7 Aug 202125 Jun 2021 Understory Some people walk into the forest and look up into the canopy through the dappled sunlight as it blinks behind the leaves. But when I walk into the woods…
Anthology Forest Wild Ways 6 Aug 202125 Jun 2021 wild ways a generous mother she is in her womb, an infinite beat conceived, birthed, and nurtured crawls, strolls, feathers in flight inhaling her exhale draped in a tamed skin…
Anthology Forest A Winter Migration 5 Aug 202125 Jun 2021 A Winter Migration The pine siskins have come south and evening grosbeaks east. I wait for an appearance at our feeders as I have waited for tundra swans near the…
Anthology Forest Westmoreland Co. Dogwood 4 Aug 202125 Jun 2021 Westmoreland Co. Dogwood And on our left there was Dogwood in full bloom - with it’s white petals flowering in their usual bountiful outward expansion. We drove up the hill…
Anthology Forest To Be Seen 3 Aug 202125 Jun 2021 To Be Seen Outside my back windows are Douglas fir trees. So familiar, I call them friends. Tall, steadfast, and strong with a tinge of whimsical Revealed when their limbs…
Anthology Forest Survivor 2 Aug 202124 Jun 2021 Survivor Smoldering air presses on my shoulders Smoke lingers, lungs labor Eyes water, I stumble among Charred remains of broadleaf forest Snap, crack, vibrations radiate up my legs I lament…
Anthology Forest If I Could 1 Aug 202124 Jun 2021 If I Could know each thing, the inside of it, what name each thing desires, why trees give forests soft floors, by what means mycelia—pale filaments of life tunneling in…
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