Nature dry 10 Jan 202523 Dec 2024 before the rain returns iwant to remember skinpeeling on my lips,hands rubbing roughagainst my arms on cooling nights. iwant to rememberleaves veined brownlike rivers naked withstale silt; spinning on rusted…
Water Ocean Tells Her Story 9 Jan 202523 Nov 2024 Ships scrawl cursive across ultramarine,lines of wake, swirling foam.Leaping dolphins and sailfishprovide punctuation.Foghorns moan. Waves crash.Whales reveal secretsin madrigals we cannot decipher.Crab drowse among soft-spoken reeds.Oysters and clams huddlein calcified…
Nature Summer Soak 8 Jan 202523 Dec 2024 The black sky bull roarsfearless lightening pulsessoaked plants cowerdove’s nestle under eaves Listen to the storm’s callthe rain drummingthe keening windto the clash of Gods on high. Ann Chiappetta Ann…
Water He’s still here 7 Jan 202523 Nov 2024 Like a ceramicist molding his medium into perfect forms, his hands morph my body like moist clay. He surrounds me like a kiln and just as his sintering is about…
Nature Awakening 6 Jan 202523 Dec 2024 Life changed in a moment,Breaking the dam of all that I knew.Waters crashed my body,Sunk me like a lost ship. Buried deep in cold, heavy dirt,An icy, stinging death.Yet, even…
Water Germination 5 Jan 202523 Nov 2024 Don’t forget the pain. Don’tturn your back on the pain. It is notsomething to erasewith a kiss. Holysadness, holy spirit, holy –pleasure. We are flames, flamesalchemizing breath into light.I am…
Nature Forests seem to burn constantly now, 4 Jan 202523 Dec 2024 and though I have prayed for water allsummer, supplicating the skyto extinguish this asthmatic smoke,today, I lower my head as if trappedunder a gray cloud ceiling this rain announces its reunionto…
Water Salmon in Cedar Creek 3 Jan 202523 Nov 2024 End of summer and rain has fallenevery day for more than a weekproviding swift, high water in streams.Maybe I summoned them, subconsciously,in a language of bricks and mortar,adding a fireplace…
Nature Water 2 Jan 202523 Dec 2024 Liquid, solid, gas, vital to all life,provided by creeks, rivers, lakes, oceans,it’s what I drink throughout the day,what cools hot beverages when frozen.Accumulations of droplets promise relief from heat.When hot,…
Water Wind of Change 1 Jan 20251 Jan 2025 Now and then, a perfect wind kicks upfilling our sails, giving a powerful boost,allowing us to ride higher in the watertoward a brighter, charged horizon. That’s when we turn our…
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