EARTH… Piece 10 Sep 201913 Jul 2019 Dormant tree trunk shadows on snow, the perfect slate, sheet music on the meadow. The crow flies a scale, rearing up - punctuates the arpeggio. Deer hoofs plant staccato points,…
EARTH… Monarch Days 2 Sep 201913 Jul 2019 A gesture of yearning or an open book, Slowly she spreads her stained-glass wings Opening, closing, steadily, calmly Nestled in a dogwood tree, flaming like a yule log on Christmas…
EARTH… Dandelion Devotional 30 Aug 201913 Jul 2019 Well, it is better that someone love them. —Frank O’Hara Dandelions are disrobing all over America shedding their petals in meadows and parkways kindling the warm cloth of the world…
EARTH… Road Less Traveled 26 Aug 201913 Jul 2019 -Allison Paoli Find my poetry, art, and photographs via www.theprose.com/ALifeWitArt, Instagram "ALifeWitArt," and several publications distributed by Prolific Press.
EARTH… Great Blue Heron 22 Aug 201913 Jul 2019 -Susan Bray I love the Great Blue Heron and when I saw this guy land in the bay near Florence, Oregon I just had to try to get a…
EARTH… Earth 10 Aug 20199 Jul 2019 -Elizabeth Dennis Elizabeth Dennis is a freelance writer and photographer based our of Virginia. When not photographing nature, she aims to capture the moments when humans action is inextricably wild,…
EARTH… The Pull 6 Aug 20199 Jul 2019 Sleeping beneath open skies, touched by waves of wind so crisp and cool that the bugs have long left and all you can do is pull the next long breath…
EARTH… Tree Dance 4 Aug 20199 Jul 2019 Tree glistening in wet soft breeze glittering leaves dancing alive joyful rejoicing in rain and summer’s day. -Duane Herrmann Duane L. Herrmann, internationally published, award-winning poet and historian, has held…
EARTH… NOT DOT.COM CALM 24 Jul 20197 Jul 2019 But Bio Chary Immensely fertile Amazonian loam, terra preta was formed either intentionally or by circumstance in indigenous communities millennia ago. Upon examination, that dirt was found to contain charcoal,…
EARTH… Shifting Seasons 22 Jul 20195 Jul 2019 The four of seasons feels unhitched this year. No crisp day or chill night for need of shawl. October bathes in slow sun, forswears weary winter. No bawling geese fly…
EARTH… Shifting Seasons 22 Jul 20197 Jul 2019 The four of seasons feels unhitched this year. No crisp day or chill night for need of shawl. October bathes in slow sun, forswears weary winter. No bawling geese fly…
EARTH… Where You’ve Gone 17 Jul 20195 Jul 2019 *after Ada Limon Confession: I did not want to live here, not among the white pine, Indian Paint Brush, or the poplars, not waist-high in the lily pads that frame…
EARTH… Hammock Harmonies 9 Jul 201918 May 2019 Cradled in the gentle breeze, I sway back and forth, studying the cerulean sky. Daylight breaks through curtains of clouds, spotlighting trees which extend bark chandeliers, their pine cone candles…
AIR… The Four Directions 7 Jul 201918 May 2019 East Dawn ushers in spring robin songs wake Earth’s sleepers run to red dusk, Go South Breathe in summer air accept balance from long light run with Deer heart, Go…
EARTH… Brandy Station 26 Jun 201916 May 2019 - Photograph by John Kinney I teach ESL and Linguistics at Northern Virginia Community College. My photographs were recently published in the Nassau Journal and in Float Magazine. I am…
EARTH… The Mountain Lion 24 Jun 201930 Oct 2019 Through the smoke of wildfires, the mountain lion had the same tint as the moon— dark copper, as well as I could see through the haze that burned my eyes,…
EARTH… AWASH IN THE DESERT 23 Jun 201920 May 2019 He stoops and rubs his hand across the rough stubble of the mown wheat and stares up into the noon sun which reflects like a beacon off the mostly empty…
EARTH… Earth 17 Jun 201920 May 2019 -Jill Boyle Jill Boyles' photography has appeared in Literary Cargo, Passporte Gallery; Light, Space, Time Art Gallery; Forage Poetry and others. Her website is jillboylesphotographer.com.
EARTH… Now, I am the Sunflower 15 Jun 201920 May 2019 I saw him once, He was riding his ivory gold chariot, From East to West. He would end his journey at the far sea. And everyday would come back home…
EARTH… Will to Life 24 May 201919 May 2019 one over nothing in succession in the covering this of the new snow soundlessly the hills the environs unfolding toward somewhere migratory instinct lightly threaded overhead I admit I know…
EARTH… Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Pinecone 17 May 20197 May 2019 Petrified artichoke; miniature pineapple; flowerless bud; raccoon’s shuttlecock; scepter of seeds; mosquitoes' drinking cup; snout of the bear that follows you home; Fibonacci's dreamscape; 3-D mandala; missile launched by squirrel…
EARTH… Something of the Marvelous 15 May 201913 May 2019 Amy Stonestrom is an emerging writer from western Wisconsin. She is currently an MFA candidate in Bay Path University's creative nonfiction program. Her essays and photography have been published in…
AIR… Drips of Dew 12 May 20197 May 2019 Long ago and far away, atop a mountain, Promises were made. Ideal, naive selves present. Words without witness fall too easily to the ground. Do they splash or…
EARTH… Life Cycle 7 May 20195 May 2019 Once a brilliant green jewel in a treetop’s crown this fading brown leaf on its journey back to soil slow-motion wobbles while floating down …
AIR… Thank you! 4 May 20194 May 2019 We are currently going through all the submissions. If you have not heard from us, you will soon! We received so many excellent poems and photographs, thank you all for…
EARTH… ODE TO SAND (Indiana Dunes) 29 Apr 2019 ODE TO SAND (Indiana Dunes) by Steve Brammell Henry Chandler Cowles, at the University of Chicago, developed a more formal concept of succession. Cowles studied vegetation development on the ever…