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Month: December 2021

Apaja'simk - To Return

What you Seek

31 Dec 202118 Dec 2021
    Poem by Benjamin Green Benjamin Green is the author of eleven books including The Sound of Fish Dreaming. At the age of 65 he hopes his new work…
Apaja'simk - To Return

Artesian Spring and Flowing to Black Rock

30 Dec 202118 Jan 2022
When I found the spring it was cold and clean, rising through old leaves like a dolphin’s brow, the bow of a wave. I cleared away gold and carmine and…
Nature

November Fires

29 Dec 202118 Dec 2021
Glowing smoke Of aspen leaves, Backlit By late sunshine, Rides the breath Of first snow. Summer fires — All of them — Have died And only sparks Of aspen gold…
Apaja'simk - To Return

wild

28 Dec 202110 Dec 2021
in the forest i am feral, grow matted thick red fur, feel my nose grow inches longer. in the forest i hunt for animals with alarming speed and no fear,…
Apaja'simk - To Return

Fiddleheads

27 Dec 202110 Dec 2021
There is always the ostrich fern when someone else’s endeavor outshines mine, with a smile half-apologetic. I leave my desk for a patch of shade, behind the office, where roots…
Apaja'simk - To Return

On the Boat of her Ancestors

26 Dec 20219 Dec 2021
She recognizes her. Camouflaged by the brilliance of the light bursting beyond the pulpit. Her familiar. Her outline against eternity, the head, and shoulders, and arm descending. Her hand upon…
Apaja'simk - To Return

Petroglyph Dreaming

25 Dec 20218 Dec 2021
Canyonlands National Park 37°59'18.6"N 109°31'04.4"W In dreams I return to this land of stones and stars. When I was here last, I laid on the ground beneath miles of stars,…
Apaja'simk - To Return

Powers That Be

24 Dec 202110 Dec 2021
Daylight. The river skips and plays a buoyant rhythm. Upstream, rapids dissipate into eddies that breathe. Low-slung branches shelter Jesus bugs as they leave wakes upon the surface. Mid-river, a…
Apaja'simk - To Return

Winter Camp

23 Dec 20218 Dec 2021
Winter Camp - Miles east of the Muskwa Range into the Boreal Forest Born in and of water I step out on the lake axe open the frozen crust sink…
Apaja'simk - To Return

What Never Seems to Happen

22 Dec 20216 Dec 2021
The husband and kids drive off, they leave me in total peace. This time it is late July. If I think of them now, I smell the chlorine and the…
Apaja'simk - To Return

Migrating Elk

21 Dec 20216 Dec 2021
Elk Last night crossed the road as they have done each year since I moved to this mountain retreat Elk Left hoof prints on the muddy trail last night cows…
Apaja'simk - To Return

What the Willows Wanted

20 Dec 202117 Dec 2021
We came because the willows called across a stubbled field, a centennial farmhouse sat behind the behemoth ash all gloried out in leafy hues, the road had been a trail…
Apaja'simk - To Return

Ride the Storm

19 Dec 202117 Dec 2021
Fool to stand on a South Carolina beach, Lord how I love that snap in the air That arrives before lighting and thunder. The sky turns green and tides drop…
Apaja'simk - To Return

Forest Bathing

18 Dec 202117 Dec 2021
The logic of a mountain trail map, broken line of "old logging road" climbing continuously up contour lines, fades when the high-pitched yelp of wild turkey startles your stride. You…
Apaja'simk - To Return

Shimmer

17 Dec 202117 Dec 2021
Poem and Photograph by Janet Ruth Janet Ruth is a New Mexico ornithologist. Her writing focuses on connections to the natural world. She has recent poems in Tulip Tree Review,…
Apaja'simk - To Return

By the light of the stars

16 Dec 202110 Dec 2021
The bright-winged warblers will leave soon, south for their wintering grounds, away from their twig-woven nests, the cool forests of hemlock and oak, their eggs cracked open, fledglings gone. I…
Apaja'simk - To Return

Waiting for the Tide

15 Dec 202130 Nov 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…
Apaja'simk - To Return

The Eye Dazzler

14 Dec 202110 Dec 2021
Jo pulled in to The Ancient Way Café, her old red and rusted Ford 150 idled in the gravel lot. She felt a bit nervous but figured this was her…
Apaja'simk - To Return

My Father’s Memories of Black Creek Road

13 Dec 202117 Dec 2021
My father’s past had all but disappeared from this lonely country road in the Appalachians of northern Pennsylvania. It was late August, we had driven here in his new time-machine—a…
Apaja'simk - To Return

Leaf Mosaic

12 Dec 202110 Dec 2021
Photograph by Meg Freer   Meg Freer teaches piano, writes poetry and does occasional freelance editing and proofreading from her home in Kingston, Ontario. Her photos, short prose and poems…
Apaja'simk - To Return

Bow, sow, grow

11 Dec 202114 Dec 2021
An oxygen planet seems to parch As the sun seem to scorch The flowing water Invisibly disappear Into a vapor sphere Painting grey on barren sky A life that is…
Apaja'simk - To Return

Peregrinations

10 Dec 202112 Dec 2021
Above the shale scree atop a dizzying steep on a narrow ledge she sits on speckled eggs waiting for her mate to bring her food and take her place so…
Apaja'simk - To Return

after the apocalypse

9 Dec 202130 Nov 2021
excuse me for humming a little louder to fill in for the missing birds. the morning air begging for a response. me, off pitch. foraging for notes. now forgetting their…
Apaja'simk - To Return

Swallows in Early September

8 Dec 202123 Nov 2021
they were everywhere filling skin and sky their white bellies blinding i was shattered into a thousand shades of blue they rose and fell as one each small body becoming…
Apaja'simk - To Return

First Freeze

7 Dec 202122 Nov 2021
Photograph by Martha Nance Martha Nance is a physician in Minnesota who enjoys nature photography; to her great pleasure, several of her photos and one very short story have previously…
Apaja'simk - To Return

Going Back

6 Dec 202120 Nov 2021
I never realized how many ties my home town has on my being. Perched on the edge of the West Coast, Perth, one of the most isolated capital cities in…
Apaja'simk - To Return

Becoming a Cormorant

5 Dec 202120 Nov 2021
Poem by Diana Woodcock Diana Woodcock is the author of seven chapbooks and four poetry collections, most recently Facing Aridity (a finalist for the 2020 Prism Prize for Climate Literature).…

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