Nature Views from the Towpath 8 Apr 202528 Mar 2025 Still waters reflect tall buildings,cool, dark shadows under bridges,reversed graffiti from old walls. There’s buddleia and willow herb,moorhens and a heron fishing :all of them in mirror image,enlivening old watercourse.…
Water The Islands of the Gods(Illas Cíes) 7 Apr 20257 Mar 2025 Come here with me, andbreathe the scent of salt and spicyeucalyptus as we walk throughcrackling sandy leaf litter,past crescent beaches;where spiny lizards skitterbetween boulders gilded in shining lichen,and just-fledged seagulls…
Nature MONTENEGRO 6 Apr 202528 Mar 2025 For A.P. and R.R. The sun rests its tired head on the mountainous curves of Montenegro, its bronzed heartaims arrows of yearning at the Adriatic Sea. The dancer of Budva pleads with the wind to…
Water Rivers 5 Apr 20257 Mar 2025 Rivers are arteries of color running through a wild land.Dusk turns Fox’s river into a flame,a turbulence of dream songs rushing into darknesswhere rivers flow into the seaand seas empty…
Nature The Only Thing That Matters 4 Apr 202528 Mar 2025 There is a bodyof water just downthe road.I would call it by a moreflattering name,wishing it weren’tartificially made,but the truth of itis that it is aretention pond.Rains fall, gently,or violently,their…
Water grief river 3 Apr 20252 Mar 2025 - Natasha N. DeonarainNatasha N. Deonarain is the author of two chapbooks, winner of the 2020 Three Sisters Award by NELLE magazine and Best of the Net Nominee by Rogue…
Nature “I’ve Known Rivers” 2 Apr 202528 Mar 2025 “I’ve Known Rivers”–a quotation from Langston Hughes I am too soft for these rivers, too worn to attempt morethan a float at this juncture of my age and raw nature.…
Water The Sound of Your Voice 1 Apr 20252 Mar 2025 The words I meant to speakhave slipped away,swallowed into the orange lip of sunrisestretched thin in the darkness,lapped between lakeand low-hanging cloud,indigo on indigo.In the water slapping at my feetI…
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