Apaja'simk - To Return Wild Cherry 14 Feb 20223 Feb 2022 All along the hollow lane, wild cherry lets its petals fall, not like confetti, but flake by desultory flake discarded, their purpose served, as Spring bustles on whistling. Its focus…
Apaja'simk - To Return Plot 107 Roucan Loch 13 Feb 20223 Feb 2022 When my time comes around/lay me gently in the cold dark earth/ no grave can hold my body down/ I’ll crawl home to earth” – Hozier – Work Song Lower…
Apaja'simk - To Return On the Unceded Land of Abenaki 12 Feb 20223 Feb 2022 When I look at the fence I built, four-feet tall, as the dogs romp, I worry about after, when we are gone. What care embraces land? The turkeys and the…
Apaja'simk - To Return Lake Erie sunset welcoming us home 11 Feb 20223 Feb 2022 Photograph by Stuart Terman Nice to travel but happier to find our way home to this July/sunset over Lake Erie, as a surprise welcome. I thought this picture--taken as the…
Apaja'simk - To Return Tiger Lily 10 Feb 20223 Feb 2022 Garden escapees—thanks to birds, insects, wind, and human hands, They settle in the wild and breed, whether intentionally or not. I have never been one to like the taming of…
Apaja'simk - To Return The Piano Dreamed 9 Feb 20223 Feb 2022 Poem by Anita Sullivan I'm a poet living among the magnificent trees of the Pacific Northwest. I've published both essay and poetry collections, am a founding member of the poetry…
Apaja'simk - To Return Returning Home in Fog 8 Feb 20223 Feb 2022 Poem by Adele Beebe Adele Beebe currently lives and creates in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, which provides so much inspiration for subject matter, color, texture, and…
Apaja'simk - To Return Rain in the Forecast 7 Feb 20223 Feb 2022 The impeded stream is the one that sings.” Wendell Berry Rain in the Forecast Come on first autumn rainfall stun the leaves, knock free the dust soften the oak’s dry…
Apaja'simk - To Return Returning Tide 6 Feb 20227 Feb 2022 The tide, coming in, pushes up neat clumps of seaweed, glistening green, like the “grass” dumped from an easter basket. Waves roll in with a gentle power, pushing the last…
Apaja'simk - To Return The Return 5 Feb 20223 Feb 2022 Silent for so long, the angel whispers again. Her message comes through birling basswood leaves: Dance! She points to ripples streaming to the lakeshore, reminds me all boundaries are sand…
Apaja'simk - To Return Bloodroot 4 Feb 20223 Feb 2022 The bloodroot is blooming. Ivory clumps of guiltless blossoms shine among tumbled blocks of limestone. Halting my journey, I can’t keep my eyes from the old quarry walls that shelter…
Apaja'simk - To Return Without Rain 3 Feb 20223 Feb 2022 Today the winds have them, violent and beautiful, La Danse Apache pulled and pushed from side to side purple spikes bend twist, pitch, roll. Emerald branches reach out like spurned…
Apaja'simk - To Return Fuss About Finches 1 Feb 202226 Jan 2022 Growing up an “army brat”, Reena Kapoor lived all over India and feels lucky for having had that wandering life. Reena has been muddling with poetry for over a decade.…
Apaja'simk - To Return All Swim Free 31 Jan 202226 Jan 2022 In that narrow strip between the road and the woods, we are searching for the hidden entrance, marked by a concrete pylon and a dirt footpath. It’s tucked in among…
Apaja'simk - To Return The Prodigal Arm 30 Jan 202226 Jan 2022 I cut off my arm. Numb from shoulder to hand, it didn't hurt. I used a coping saw to stop it wandering and in the garden I burnt the only…
Apaja'simk - To Return Standing Dead 29 Jan 202226 Jan 2022 Poem by Girard Tournesol I've had a largely private poetry practice for 45 years publishing under pen name Girard Tournesol. I've published two books of poetry. My work has appeared…
Apaja'simk - To Return A Murmuration of Starlings 28 Jan 202226 Jan 2022 Skyfall over the meadow is its usual dusky, almost sullen blue, draping itself over the tops of the ancient trees that line the path to the sea. Your absence is…
Apaja'simk - To Return Earth remembers us all 27 Jan 202226 Jan 2022 desolate regions between kindness arid soil of heartbreak howling winds of lies empty shadows of hunger hand upon the fist the fist in the face in the dark alleys of…
Apaja'simk - To Return Male Gentoo Penguin: Preparation for Incubation 26 Jan 2022 What you need are pebbles— more—hard to find— on Antarctica Peninsula— and a spot for building your nest with expectant mate. You found the right smooth stone for wooing her…
Apaja'simk - To Return The Fall 25 Jan 202219 Jan 2022 The leaves are in the mood the eyes hold when seduction is about to occur – that soft brilliance of invitation and the sense that a moment too long is…
Apaja'simk - To Return Gulf Stream Winds 24 Jan 202219 Jan 2022 Poem by Christine Cock Christine worked in conservation for over 20 years. She lives in Florida in the woods and teaches yoga and qigong outdoors. She received her BA…
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