Water HOW I BECAME PURE FLAME 31 Jan 202515 Dec 2024 Sailing through phosphorescentwaters at night, I resisted sleep.Wanting to keep awake, I would takea walk on the deck to be swept upin the beauty of it all – crystal rivers…
Nature Depths 30 Jan 202525 Jan 2025 Lake Christopher has taken the whisper moon hostageswallowed the smudge clouds to the west, held themon its unrippled surface, broken only by emerging Hexagenia. If I brave the spiders to…
Water The Surface of the Sea 29 Jan 202515 Dec 2024 In night’s embrace the moon descends beyond mountains’ reflectionstill searching the sea’s surface for her own clear reflection. Like a pizza slicer the moon cuts into the farthest wavewithout a…
Nature When the Water and Sand Dance 28 Jan 202525 Jan 2025 When the water and sand dance, whence (whence?)their music? What is that music? What sense, whatcomposition surfs itself in? Yes, the water—itsbazillion droplets, the mini-jetsam line it etches.Yes, the sand—its…
Water Norris Lake, 1948 27 Jan 202515 Dec 2024 Like green taffeta,a silky swirl of shadeslaps the boat’s sides—Norris Lake, my fatherat the helm, his outboardpowering us across the waterto our favorite island—three days of swimming,fishing, sleeping curledon a…
Nature ocean poem 26 Jan 202521 Jan 2025 from decades of looking intothis magnificent creationi have come to see the oceanas something of a big brotherwho pushes meinto more joy than is mortally fairwhich makes me wonderwhat does…
Water Being Water 25 Jan 202515 Dec 2024 I am water flowing with ease.No destination.No outcome.No purpose to be had.In this moment, I am water.A rushing river rapidly rippling.In this moment a creek, small, steady,silent flow through slumbering…
Nature Ecosystem of a Stone 24 Jan 202521 Jan 2025 After Sea Structure II by Phil Dike IThe sun doesn’t seemto understand a constantspasm. Count it –every 5-7 secondsfor days/weeks. IIThe sea instructs aboutebb and flow. The crashingsound surrounds. Seagullsshout.…
Water Summer of Floods 23 Jan 202515 Dec 2024 This summer we learnedlessons in hydrology—the continuousmovement of water,the lateral systemsrain overwhelms,the way precipitationfar off translatesinto weeks of overflow.Ephemeral streams,flood pulses, meanders.How this languageof interconnectionand divergenceteaches patternsabout what littlewe control.…
Nature Waters to Cross 22 Jan 202521 Jan 2025 There are always mountains and waters to cross;rushing small rivers over rocks, eddying around boulders,flecks of white foam swirl into lace geometries,fly over themselves, get in their own wayas if…
Water To Do or Not to Do 21 Jan 202515 Dec 2024 For Alex There’s a hole in my to do listwhich lets me peer throughto the other side of importancewhere a murmuring streamof consciousnessbreaks downwhat is timeboundlike water eroding rockcontinuously…the so-called…
Nature Three Poems from “Love Songs to a City Lake” 20 Jan 202520 Jan 2025 Three Poems from “Love Songs to a City Lake” Paired Music: Gymnopeide, Eric Satie The Four A.Ms.You know them. Wakeful, far from her.I think of her skin, its surface tension,…
Water Still Waters 19 Jan 202530 Nov 2024 The water is always stilldisturbed only by rain or windshattering the glass surfaceor in the winter the blowskimming sideways acrosslike ghost skaters.Nothing lives belowthe pale gray.No murkiness denoting lifenor twisting…
Nature Finger Painting 18 Jan 202511 Jan 2025 When I reach for the river along this pageand bend its colors under my fingers,I never always know exactly wherewe are flowing, and I’m even a littlefearful that as we…
Water The Waters of Life 17 Jan 202530 Nov 2024 I go to lakes and streamsfor different reasons.Lakes show what is alwayspresent reflected on the water,contained by a shoreline,the paradox of forever caughtin here and nowlike the sacredin the profane.I…
Nature FORGIVENESS? 16 Jan 202511 Jan 2025 A rodent’s morality.The heart?Symbol of mortality—Open to the canyonWhen the clouds pour inCarrying the chortlesOf ravens. The birds, themselves,Disappear, as usual,Into the nothingnessOf the storm. The wise juncos hideIn chamisa;…
Nature #315: Trawling Aubrey Ponds 15 Jan 202526 Nov 2024 Discovered twelve luminescent creaturesTrawling aubrey ponds Downy feathered ducklingsa dozen on this dayat peace nibbling green eel grassReassured by Mother Goose sidling over gadwalls just a few weeks oldThese creatures…
Nature I Always Sit at Starboard 14 Jan 202511 Jan 2025 I always sit at Starboard:I always sit at starboard when I am out at sea,My beard curled with salt and sunbeaten inky skin.Who is the guy in Greek mythology? Odysseus…
Water trembling 13 Jan 202525 Nov 2024 Arlene Geller Arlene Geller's poetry has appeared in Tiferet Journal, White Enso, and Tiny Seed, among other literary journals and anthologies. Two poetry collections, The Earth Claims Her and Hear…
Nature the colors between snowflakes 12 Jan 202511 Jan 2025 my mother was so optimisticshe could see the bright side of a train wreck.perhaps during winter, she would focus onthe colors between snowflakes such as the red tube slides, green…
Water compass (a) rose 11 Jan 202523 Nov 2024 Cardinal directions were always a slippery concept to me.North was elusive, ever-shifting,an adult secret I would never be privy to.When I was 12, wemoved to a small town on Lake Winnipeg. Lake Winnipeg: from…
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