Nature Lake Path 22 May 202613 May 2026 Today, I knewI could leave this house, butI could never give up being so closeto the lake path, where I’ve walkedwith loved companions, loved caninesand myself for 45 years.The path…
Nature holy ground 17 May 202613 May 2026 this sidewalk is holy groundwhere heplaces his shoesjustbeyond reach of his bent graspeach night under the thickthighs of I-405 laying onmattress of cardboardbedding of coat-blanket-hatface masked in dim light i’ve…
Nature Wedding Portrait – 1958 16 May 202613 May 2026 There we stand, the ministerbehind us, tall candelabraon either side, palm leavessprouting unnaturallyaround us, you in whitedinner jacket, I in whitewedding dress, our facesunmarred, the world openingbefore us. We are…
Nature If I Would’ve Left Before Finding the Meadow 15 May 202612 May 2026 Mindfulness would’ve beenjust another roadI feared.But I bowed, like molasses,to grassthat gives green its color,to buttercups so goldenthey light the jeweler’s loupeof breathand my eyes—evanescent and eagerfor more,proofthat it was…
Nature Leaving the Nest 14 May 202612 May 2026 I sit on my front porch, amusedby the family I see in the woodsin front of my house. All up and down the expanseof a half-fallen tree, three youngsterssit, calling out…
Nature The Longing 13 May 202612 May 2026 I long for silence.I long for short sentences.I long for the kind of quiet where I can hear humans breathing in a room,or feel my own pulse in the stillness.I…
Nature the animals they’ve become 12 May 202613 May 2026 I became a foxand walked formiles along the trailmarked for peopleturning to birds of preyMy friends are long goneMy sternum cracksat the thought of themthe weight theycarrytheanimals they’vebecome Brandon Earl…
Nature The Dog and Me 10 May 20263 May 2026 Once on a winter’s night the dog and mewere at once evasion and serenityWe were delusional and at peace.He juked up as if to say the craic’s not goodwith me…
Nature my walking body 8 May 20263 May 2026 - Susan Michele Coronel Susan Michele Coronel’s collection, “In the Needle, A Woman” (Finishing Line Press, 2025) won the 2024 Donna Wolf Palacio Prize. Susan's poems have been twice nominated…
Nature… Path to Little Ruin 4 May 202630 Apr 2026 to Josiahthe leaves lay downthe carbon at my feetthe Leith is sniffing outthe settler’s stone shed the oldquarry the first dam the wateris dripping purple poroporofrom the side of the…
Nature WATCHING FORTY-SEVEN BISON TREADING THE SACRED PATH 1 May 202626 Apr 2026 Today let’s celebrate bison – the forty-seven released on the Wind River Reservation in 2021. May they thrive on protected lands of the tribes – Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho.…
Nature RIP Goodman Moose 30 Apr 202626 Apr 2026 Why, why do we feel (we all feel) this sweet sensation of joy? - Elizabeth BishopThe DEC has euthanized the bull moose that unusual divagations, wandered the trail up the…
Nature Walking to Work 29 Apr 202626 Apr 2026 I flush the birds out with my stepsHouse sparrows in the yewsA pair of mourning doves at the feederThey startle, loudly, thenresettle on the power linesI tell myself, look upLike…
Nature You Can Become 28 Apr 202626 Apr 2026 The First and Final Poem is the Sun —Rowan Ricardo PhillipsFirst and foremost, let there be light. Try to dwell in brightness.Sometimes we seek darkness, thinking it brings solace.Yes, it…
Nature The dawn – an original path to paradise 27 Apr 202626 Apr 2026 The dawn. The lighted silence. Very soon, there will be the dawn chorus-a torch to teach the day A lesson- avoid the human. My lot of death certificates open the…
Nature Chesapeake Bay: August 26 Apr 202626 Apr 2026 Sails billowSweltering day vanishes The old wooden boat skims over the waterfollowing a path of rippling moonlightI trail my hand in the frothing wakeWater streams over the varnished hullThe shore’s…
Nature Willowbrook 25 Apr 202624 Apr 2026 Up and around to stones, a city of stones, standing, lying, each with a name,three hours’ drive,a path of daffodils.Stones. Names I never heard.When I can, I go,sit on the…
Nature Trekking 24 Apr 202622 Apr 2026 It’s as if I’d been stumbling through a fallacious forest.My head in a thick duping overstory.But I knew it when I saw it--the pasture clearing,dotted with cow dung,some old and…
Nature Running Hard Herself, My Fox 23 Apr 202622 Apr 2026 barks to me that I must go on.I am trembling, weak, deep-stung?I feel lost among dark stones?She laughs at me in silver ripples,tells me with her full red furI’m the…
Nature Path 22 Apr 202621 Apr 2026 I follow the pathunfolding before medoorways appearout of mist and forest.I don’t know where this pathgoes, I just know thatit’s the one I’m on.The path winds its way through dark…
Nature the long hill 11 Apr 20262 Apr 2026 we walk the long hilla ritual of 18 years our constitutional, she saysthe dog leads as usualsniffing the outdoorsas he runs aheadwhen there’s a gap he stands in the middleweighing…
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