WATER The Creek 28 Feb 202511 Feb 2025 Let the cello tell of the creek—midnight-black,even at noon, the arch of long grass, the velvetof cattails around water’s edge—water-hometo eels and crabs, glossy as a dark, dark sauce.Let the…
Nature RAINWATER SONG/ RAIN AND BIRDS / WATER SONG 27 Feb 202525 Feb 2025 Coolness seeps into the morning.We have had rain.Sensations of being cleansedenliven the treesbright green with light.Bird song splashes the air.Where had the birds hid in the rain?This is a quandary…
Water Lake Carmi with My Daughter 26 Feb 20259 Feb 2025 Sitting behind youin a low-slung kayakI marvel atswinging black braidssliding down your backshiny in the equinox sun.Each stroke of dark waterreminds me of the nightsyou swore you’d never go backto…
Nature Forever Pond 25 Feb 202524 Feb 2025 Gonna jump into the pond in my gardendown towards forever.I see it crystal clear shimmeringlike the very air on a winter’s day.Love hearts stuck onto fragile fleshmark my passage but…
Water The Tao of Water 24 Feb 20259 Feb 2025 Like the Alpha-Omega, watercan give life, and take it away;can nourish a whole planet,and wipe its face clean;sits tall on a sky’s throne,and humbly washes your feet.Like humans, watercan fall,…
Nature Allegheny River Rising 23 Feb 202524 Feb 2025 Each morningthe view promises something,and I always hope for a bald eagle,or red-tailed hawk,or even a skein of geese floating by purposefully.But today, it is simply fog—a beautiful, misty blanket…
Water undertow 22 Feb 20259 Feb 2025 Dive into the white rushof uncertain currents,abandon deliberate itineraries,give ourselves overto gold sunrise, whirling spindrift,refreshed sands, unfamiliar trails,new year’s siren song.Let the undertow take uswherever it chooses.Drag us over the…
Nature Why Try to Put Words to It 21 Feb 202524 Feb 2025 Because the door of words is thick and worn.Each groove is smoothwith touch and weather.Two cross-bars hold the walnutplanks together, and a push-latch springsit loose with the clook of wood…
WATER Ducks 20 Feb 202519 Jan 2025 They follow a swirl alongan eddy of the muddy river;Gentle intimacy on dark currents.Befriending me, I am carriedand charmed by their decency.The pines behind the librarywere mauled today.Sliced and piled…
Nature Monsoon 19 Feb 202517 Feb 2025 To experience monsoon fullydemands a metal roof.Rain pelts downno longer a liquid but a solid.A steady roar obliterates.Universe contracts tocasita—tempest—and me.The Mustang Mountains are gone,the Huachucas. I standmarooned by a…
Water White Water Rafting on the Salmon River, Idaho 18 Feb 20254 Jan 2025 River frigidWhite sand burningSplash rapid splashBetter than DisneylandThe opposite of a cruiseThe making of new friends:Gluten-free friendsReading and movie friendsYoung, fit and drop dead gorgeous friendsMedicare friendsEhlers-Danlos friendsDysfunctional family friendsRiver,…
Nature Operculum 17 Feb 202517 Feb 2025 I have cloaked myself in spirals,gathering grains of sand.The deeper hues burn internally,leaving the exteriorto bleach and stain with each turn. In collusion with the currentsI yield, I peel.With each…
Nature trek 16 Feb 20254 Jan 2025 Hugh Findlay Hugh Findlay’s writing and photography have been published worldwide. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2020 for poetry, and the Best Microfiction Anthology 2024, he is in the…
Nature Walking in a Storm 15 Feb 202515 Feb 2025 When’s the last timeyou walked in a storm;let the rain soak you;clothes clinging like asecond skin; let thewind do what it will toyour finely coiffed hair,so that you return hometotally…
Water h two o 14 Feb 20254 Jan 2025 my body is seventy percent youyet i am flooded by theenormity of the ocean, forgettingthat it is closer in compositionto my own particulate fluid,until i taste my tears, unlike thefresh…
Nature Jellyfish 13 Feb 20259 Feb 2025 You dream of form:I appear in water.You dream of time:I begin to pulsate. You dream of life:I, made in water,Made of water,Move in water. (Somewhere, on landThere is a missing…
Water 8 LITTLE WAVE STORIES 12 Feb 202529 Dec 2024 Gloria D. Gonsalves Gloria D. Gonsalves is a poet, author, illustrator, and occasional columnist. Her poems have appeared in Brittle Paper, Galway Review, Eclectica, the Decolonial Passage, The Mantelpiece, Consilience,…
Nature My Personal Relationship With the Avocado: History and Evolution 11 Feb 20259 Feb 2025 Avocado,Alligator pear,Avocado pear. Avocados—birthed inMesoamerica, they comefrom both outcrossingand self-joy. Avocados are relics froman evolutionary antiquemall, no natural dispersersleft to spread their seeds. Avocados should neverbe chosen with a stemattached—the…
Water Trask River Rhythms 10 Feb 202529 Dec 2024 Sing me a lullaby,comforting and hypnotic,rapture in trilling rapids,wisdom among vast pools.Within a soothing melody,questions find hidden answers.Continuously flowing onward,rhythmic and mesmerizing.A musical welcomedraws mortals to play.Time’s watery cascadingsearches for…
Nature Kings Channel I 9 Feb 20258 Feb 2025 A wrecked mountain bikeand a shopping trolley marooned in the silt,Their grey brown hulks poke skywardwaiting for the tide to return and claim them.The dog busy sniffing the reeds didn’t…
Water All Water Falls Again 8 Feb 202515 Dec 2024 Take your grief to water. To a stream cold and honest.Sit amidst the last of the purple fleabane and the corpseberries that predict the color of winter.Let yourself go slack,…
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