Lessons from the Wild Rachel 21 Dec 20204 Dec 2020 Rachel (in honor of nature lovers Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman) She strolled up the rocky Boothbay beach binoculars in hand in late spring on Southport Island orange and black…
Lessons from the Wild… The Eagle 20 Dec 202013 Dec 2020 The young eagle screams from its nest in the towering pine with the broken top on the tiny island across the lily-padded bay. He screams out of loneliness…
Lessons from the Wild On Animals and Insects 20 Dec 202019 Dec 2020 like children living in the NOW of— futuristic world in a cat’s world it’s only— the present the wolves howl their way into— an ecosystem buzzing bees in world’s microcosm—…
Lessons from the Wild… Into Being 19 Dec 202019 Dec 2020 for Pattiann Rogers did the canyon wren’s descending whistle excavate the canyon? or did the canyon’s steep walls and tumbling stream far below— architect of this gothic gash in the…
Lessons from the Wild Community Garden, Wisconsin, 9 Months Pregnant 19 Dec 20204 Dec 2020 Footworn rut, dillweed, overgrown squash. The vapor of hose water and hot, early September. I find trash buried in the dirt: a 70’s era Weeble, a plastic Dannon lid, yards…
Lessons from the Wild Woman as Tree 18 Dec 202016 Dec 2020 She grows from the roots up through ferns, stretches spindly stem toward blue. Inside her is thrum, that thing that makes sap splurge. Without hands, she can’t play music, bake,…
Lessons from the Wild… The Last Hunt 17 Dec 202016 Dec 2020 In old Kentucky, in late autumn, I walked down the railroad tracks, nigh a man but less a child, hunting squirrel the first day of the season. A late start,…
Lessons from the Wild… Adirondacks 16 Dec 202013 Dec 2020 Water roars over boulders heaved up by ice age glaciers rushes through the canyon boring holes and kettle pools in the eons old rock tumbling and churning down the mountainside…
Lessons from the Wild THE CREEK 16 Dec 20204 Dec 2020 A single shallow creek flowed through those plain flat fields, but gave us all we needed, its banks a hint of wilderness, free from prying adult eyes, our wigwams built…
Lessons from the Wild… Centenarian Olive Tree 15 Dec 202013 Dec 2020 She holds history in the threads of her taproots. Her heartwood tells the story of rain, seasons of dry sorrow and wind. In her knuckled branches, in her silver…
Lessons from the Wild Kick-Off: Lessons from the Wild 15 Dec 202014 Dec 2020 Dear Tiny Seed Community, We’re excited to start publishing submissions from our “Lessons from the Wild” theme! It was an honor to read your responses to this prompt. Each submitter…
Lessons from the Wild Rewilding 15 Dec 202014 Dec 2020 - previously published as a finalist in TulipTree Review’s Wild Women Contest issue. Poem by Tracy Rose Stamper. Tracy Rose Stamper dances with words. She lives in a…
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