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Category: Lessons from the Wild

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…
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Anxious Autumn Leaves

4 Jan 202127 Dec 2020
  Anxious autumn leaves- Wind through trees Blowing howling Shrieking tearing Violently ripped From their branches.   Spinning wildly Soaring spiraling Up and around Until until until Falling Falling Falling…
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Surrender

3 Jan 20215 Jan 2021
  Poem By Geneva Toland Geneva Toland is a writer, farmer, teacher and naturalist who currently lives in Southwest Colorado. She loves to wander through the woods, searching for tracks,…
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Corvus corax

3 Jan 20211 Jan 2021
A raven coasts over the hill, over the late-autumn maples all amber, umber and ocher. He grasps the top-most branch of a white pine and looses guttural croaks that carry…
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The Unraveling

2 Jan 202127 Dec 2020
  Kingfisher was putting on a show. Circling overhead as I soaked my parched skin in the rocky pool, fed by the hidden spring. They landed on a branch near…
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I find myself

2 Jan 20212 Jan 2021
By Josephine LoRe Josephine LoRe is a first-generation Canadian who has survived covid mainly through the gift of zoom, which has transformed her computer screen into a portal opening onto…
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The Great Monarch Migration

2 Jan 20211 Jan 2021
Today travel restrictions due to COVID-19 keep tourists away from the Great Monarch Migration. But two men linked to the butterfly reserve, outspoken to illegal logging in the forest, have…
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The Night the Whippoorwill Sang

1 Jan 202124 Dec 2020
Dinner simmered on the Whisperlite. Our hiking-tired bare feet prodded and pushed into the soft, dry oak leaves, the relief of shoelessness exquisite. The forest floor held the heat of…
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Revisiting a Sanctuary for a Child Who Found Her Freedom

1 Jan 202127 Dec 2020
  Poem by Joni Caggiano Joni's blog is the-inner-child, where she has published poetry, photography, and short stories. Take a look at Joni's work in Spillwords Press NYC (where she…
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Deep Ecology of the Great Smoky Mountains

31 Dec 202019 Dec 2020
  Once again, birds singing in the rain, and though I’m far from home, I’m home again – this time in America’s most visited park.   Looking out from my…
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If the Earth had hands

31 Dec 202030 Dec 2020
The earth seemed to shake It shook as if to tell me to stop, to quit it. I couldn’t feel it of course. Once I did it again, the earth…
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Nature’s Layers

30 Dec 202029 Dec 2020
Nature's Layers Čavljak, Bosnia and Herzegovina Photograph by Micaela Edelson Hailing from Salem, Oregon, Micaela Edelson is a passionate writer and photographer aiming to shed light on humanity’s prioritization of…
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Milkweed

30 Dec 202024 Dec 2020
Photograph by Greg Clary   Greg Clary is Professor Emeritus of Rehab and Human Services at Clarion University, Clarion PA. His photographs have been published in The Sun Magazine, Looking…
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Gorgeous Envy

30 Dec 202027 Dec 2020
If I had a diamondback terrapin I would name her Spartina after the brack-water grass where her kind nest If I had a green tree frog I would name her…
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They Say

29 Dec 202028 Dec 2020
They say before the first sunrise There must have been a germ of light, Some blossoming of dawn Muting the darkness, Some hint of knife-edged rock, And the splash of…
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The Return

29 Dec 202019 Dec 2020
  Stiff, stifled, stuffed Barricaded and boxed in. A chair-shaped caricature of myself, Imprisoned in flesh, slowly dying, To get out.   I did not know. I did not know,…
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Spring Thunderstorm

28 Dec 2020
And so this farmhouse. Not the worst place to weather a pandemic-storm as well as watch the old fashioned-spring-thunder type dinging up the apple tree below this bedroom window. I…
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Addendum to the Canticle of the Creatures Written on the California North Coast

28 Dec 202028 Dec 2020
From a blue so deep the sky burns in envy, to a gentle gray a shade darker than the compact clouds above, every few hours you don a different dress,…
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Divination

28 Dec 202023 Dec 2020
I try to read the hieroglyphs of geese scribbled across the clouds, a wavering message moving south. This means something, I think, this shorthand of theirs, but I am unversed…
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Growing Idea

27 Dec 2020
Photograph by Hugh Findlay Hugh Findlay writes a lot, sometimes publishes, and would rather be caught fishing. He mows his lawn on Saturdays, naps daily, and reverses his underwear in…
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After the Storm

27 Dec 202026 Dec 2020
Battered by wind and deafened by thunder, convinced you’ll never make it through alive. Huddled in shelter you’ve hidden under, until you decide that you will survive. The raindrops slow…
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An Olfactory History of Cantaloupes

27 Dec 202027 Dec 2020
Cantaloupe sprouts smell like fully-formed cantaloupes when I water them. The air in the greenhouse is already heavy with moisture; the thermometer says 90 degrees by 9am. Water hits the…
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Message from a Snake

27 Dec 202019 Dec 2020
  When FEAR presents itself: Be in the moment. Take a deep breath. Listen to your heart. Don’ t allow FEAR to blur your vision on this journey through life!…
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Cottonwood Seeds

26 Dec 202024 Dec 2020
A million of them weigh less than three pounds. No wonder they lift away on the wind, miniature paratroopers buoyed by filaments finer than a spider’s web and carried for…
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Delicate Geometry

26 Dec 202023 Dec 2020
A spider never sees its web. Not really. Not as we see it. The delicate geometry of it — The implications. There’s No real cunning, is there? No Stratagem. Every…
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Wilderness Dreams

25 Dec 202019 Dec 2020
  In the dream he had, he tells me I am sitting on the front steps, my mother The step below, leans against my legs. We are laughing, the way…
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Cat & Mouse

25 Dec 202024 Dec 2020
    Photographs by Marcus Fields. Marcus Fields was born in Michigan and attended Michigan State University’s Residential College in the Arts and Humanities, where he received a bachelor’s degree…

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