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…
Nature Poetry Chapbook Release – Still by Corey Ruzicano 17 Dec 202016 Dec 2020 Still, Tiny Seed contributor Corey Ruzicano's debut chapbook, is available for pre-order! Royalties from the book will go to supporting The Octavia Project., which brings creative writing, art, and…
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… 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…
Facing the Fire… God Elements 14 Dec 202014 Dec 2020 In the beginning before any burning bush God was fire alone it must be so for what is God if not life? what is life if not fire? creation erupts…
Facing the Fire… Light I Can Hear 13 Dec 202013 Dec 2020 I watch, mesmerized at how quickly bark catches fire, and how bark, just as quickly, creates her afterlife in mid-air; I want to join her, and the night, throw myself…
Facing the Fire… Desert Phoenix 11 Dec 20204 Dec 2020 The pagan sun at zenith stands, Above the scorched and ravaged land, Where wildfires blaze and cattle thirst, And all below seems dry and cursed. The cities suck the…
Facing the Fire… I Fear the Dragon 10 Dec 202010 Dec 2020 By Joni Caggiano Joni Caggiano is a self-published author of the book “The Path Toward the Light.” Her blog is https://www.the-inner-child.com, where she has published poetry, photography, and short stories.…
Facing the Fire… Fire Ship 8 Dec 202029 Nov 2020 The sea expressed itself leaving us Provisions saturated and impractical Charts drawn in dissolving plot lines Among a vanishing and mutinous crew Overboard went treasured collections And wealth as we…
Facing the Fire… Across Kilauea 6 Dec 20204 Dec 2020 In heavy downpour, blinded by somber clouds, I stand on her high perimeter imagining Halemaumau far below, simmering on the face of his mother caldera, Kilauea, who, in 1967,…
Facing the Fire… The Fire of Francisville 5 Dec 20204 Dec 2020 When summer heat gives way to cold and ice and village folk begin the winter war of fixing window-panes and checking twice equipment, grains, and jars they have in store,…
Facing the Fire… Thoughts on Fire 2 Dec 20202 Dec 2020 By Deborah Sarbin Deborah Sarbin writes from northwestern Pennsylvania, where she teaches English at Clarion University. She began writing poetry in her fifties, after decades of reading and study.
Facing the Fire… Fire Drill (Santa Rosa, California, 2017) 2 Dec 202025 Nov 2020 At bedtime, no hint. Sky clear. Moon rising. House built like a boat. Wine Country hills a lullaby of waves. Attachments spill from small rooms— tatami mats, heirloom…
Facing the Fire… Savannah Renaissance 1 Dec 202025 Nov 2020 Across the landscape seething As a dragon breathing The conflagration whirling As smoke begins swirling Long-needled brown duff Provides incendiary stuff To spread ore the floor Consuming stems,…
Facing the Fire… The Pullman Car Factory Fire 30 Nov 202022 Nov 2020 July 13, 1973 Salvation never arrived.…
Facing the Fire… Children of Fire 29 Nov 202029 Nov 2020 Once we fled dry season fires like other beasts, but then we learned to stay along the edges, to go back in when the charred ground cooled, where there was…
Facing the Fire… Spring Burning 29 Nov 202029 Nov 2020 Meadow renewal with burning – flames cleanse, consume seeds unwanted plants and sprouts thickets, trees crowding grass – all gone! Invasive species restrained, now ash. Grass again can roam…
Facing the Fire… Creek Fire Bear 28 Nov 202027 Nov 2020 Red scabs Where embers scorched away fur, Blistered paws From the last rush through flames, An eye burned white, Staring at nothing, You stand below Sheep Creek. Among boulders snowbound…
Facing the Fire… Walking Black Earth 27 Nov 202027 Nov 2020 for Alvin Greenfield We’ll begin with materials unknown for rebuilding, and fail at trying to file the fire like a death certificate in our brains, burned around the edges. I…
Facing the Fire… A Meeting With The Riverman 27 Nov 202022 Nov 2020 Went down, to the riverbank, to meet ‘the riverman’, one autumn afternoon, I had a few questions, of my own, to ask them, this time. A dead branch, half-submerged,…
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