Poetry of the Wild Flowers Smiling at a Crocus in the Snow 24 Jun 20238 Jun 2023 A purple-blue intruder violates Winter’s reign of white. Peeking through the snow, a sign of Spring long before we dare to even look for any other signs. Is this, I…
Wings On the Wing 1 Oct 202318 Sep 2023 I’ve always envied how they hang there in the sky tugged by the wind as a dog on a leash as a child by the hand set on peering down…
Plant Your Words Harvested Words 31 Oct 202220 Oct 2022 I marvel at the words, how they lay across the page in tended rows or sound when spoken, not simply read, as wind fetching across a meadow of wildflowers. Not…
Seeds Potential 21 May 202212 May 2022 What makes it seed when shape or size or species range across a spectrum too wide to comprehend in single observations or even collections of moments of recollections, for discovering…
Apaja'simk - To Return V 25 Nov 202116 Nov 2021 Not just nature, harbinger Tell-tale squawks, echoing “V” in the sky, aimed south Once glimpsed, mesmerizing Shimmering, pixelated, undulating One yet many Leading and following all the same Shapeshifting yet…
Anthology Forest Live Oak Forest 1 Jul 20211 Jul 2021 Live Oak Forest A mosaic of acorn shards twisted, brittle branches, and rusted leaves of that tell-tale shape, pierced by columns of live trunks thrusting skyward. Amongst the living are…
Hibernation Snake Tree 21 Apr 202114 Apr 2021 Poem by Russell Willis Ethicist and online education entrepreneur, Russell Willis, emerged as a poet in 2019. Since then, his poetry has been published (or accepted for publication) in…
Lessons from the Wild Vermont Mountains 4 Jan 20213 Jan 2021 Poem by Russell Willis. Ethicist and online education entrepreneur, Russell Willis emerged as a poet in 2019. Since then, his poetry has been published (or accepted for publication) in…
Chapbook Contest 2020… Quality Time with a Spider 4 Jun 20204 Jun 2020 navigating its webfascinating and disconcerting (more fascinating while on the other side of the window) back and forthsuddenly in freefallyet across the windownot just downsoft landing on airthen deliberately climbing…
FIRE… No Two Fires the Same 2 Jul 20194 Jul 2019 - Russell Willis Russell Willis’s professional career began in engineering and moved to higher education and later online education and ministry. He has a Ph.D. from Emory University, and much…
Nature Poetry Cardinal Impulse 22 Mar 201919 Mar 2019 Splash of Crimson among the green Out of sync with the breeze’s consequence In tandem but also unsynced with Mate Mate, the color of white socks Washed with a Valentine’s…
Spring Journal 2019 To view the free e-journal click here To purchase a hard copy of the journal, click here Contributor Bios - alphabetical order by last name. Cassandra Alfred - Hushed Morning & Dunes (photo). A native of…
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