Nature Fallen Pine 11 Oct 202220 Sep 2022 Pushed by bully winds, its snapping ankle already gnawed by termites and wood ants, creates a fall that is strangely silent. Bushy head atop a tall, lean trunk snared in…
Plant Your Words Treespeak 10 Oct 202220 Sep 2022 basswood the splittrunk said see everything dies rootrot for me ashborer horror for the ash mindmelt for your significant other humanhalf bonedust sawdust lifelitter the goodearth inherits us peckerholes and…
Plant Your Words Sunflowers 8 Oct 20228 Oct 2022 The road descends towards the border. One land makes space for the next. The petrol is cheaper. I open my wallet and rely on the vendor to return the correct…
Plant Your Words Restraint 7 Oct 202218 Sep 2022 No speaking is effortless, and not speaking even harder. Sometimes when I talk to the roses I embed, I stop, close my lips, listen to what the green life speaks.…
Nature Wait 6 Oct 202218 Sep 2022 Waiting for today to end, I look for tomorrow. I feel the seeds of tomorrow, the fruits of a new garden, new moon, or perhaps even a new sun. …
Plant Your Words Winter Solstice Reflections 5 Oct 202218 Sep 2022 Taken on the Winter Solstice..a time for deep “reflection”. Reflecting on nature, so mysteriously beautiful, even on the darkest day of the year; as nature reflects back on the river,…
Plant Your Words Eyes of Jasper 4 Oct 202218 Sep 2022 Photograph by Tracey Dean Widelitz Tracey Dean Widelitz is a published writer, poet and photographer. She is the author of the worldwide published children’s book 'A Heavenly World'. She has…
Plant Your Words The Creek Nearby 3 Oct 202220 Oct 2022 I sat with my son by the creek this evening, the sun a shadow beyond the leaves, and I wondered why the water was shallower than I remembered it was…
Plant Your Words A poem for mid-March 2 Oct 202218 Sep 2022 I am like a crocus coming in— breaking from the dirt and breathing. I don’t know how crocuses sleep through the storms, and the snow, and every short, dark day—…
Plant Your Words Farmstead Intimacy 1 Oct 202217 Sep 2022 Let the aches and pains remind me of the contentment I experience when working with my hands. Gentle wind in my face, sun caressing my back, sweat stinging my eyes…
Plant Your Words Farmstead Intimacy 1 Oct 202216 Sep 2022 Let the aches and pains remind me of the contentment I experience when working with my hands. Gentle wind in my face, sun caressing my back, sweat stinging my eyes…
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