Nature… full moon 6 Apr 202013 Mar 2020 hanging like a sacred pearl suspended in night sky casting lustrous silver hues mystical beacon on high unfettered by dark clouds gazing at the earth below she pirouettes with the…
Nature… What is Given 4 Apr 20205 Mar 2020 What Nature gives is boundless space to expand out like tree limbs unhindered toward light that feeds and nourishes the inner life, stillness to sink into deep places where insulated…
Nature… Coming Back Down 2 Apr 20205 Mar 2020 (after Robert Frost) I haul my toboggan up the hill... a way to go, and oh so slow; but that of course is snow. I put my hands together and…
Nature… Envisioning A Clay Dove That Takes Flight 30 Mar 202029 Mar 2020 I was given a miniature clay dove to be my guardian the day living with bipolar disorder became my reality. I placed her on my bedroom windowsill as a…
Nature… Spruce 29 Mar 20206 Mar 2020 Tall majesty, Tiny cones, Winter snow cover, Cool summer shade. You were my cave, my playhouse. All of your branches, protected me from all of my Enemies, From Unknown armies…
Nature… Stages of Life 28 Mar 20206 Mar 2020 Photograph by Kip Knott Kip Knott is a teacher and an art dealer who travels the Midwest and Appalachia in search of lost treasures. His full-length collection of poetry—Tragedy, Ecstasy,…
Nature… Leaves 27 Mar 20206 Mar 2020 Gathering golds, reds, and browns, making mountains just to tear them down. Stepping twenty paces back, admiring. Suddenly lungs struggle to pump the cold, crisp air. Legs gliding, feet barely…
Nature… Map girl Forest 26 Mar 20206 Mar 2020 Find us tucked in a spine of herbal remedies. The spikes of Earth’s fuzzy head tickling the honeysuckle toe buds flowing from sandstone jugs. We graze along the spotted fawns’…
Nature… Ocean Breeze 25 Mar 20206 Mar 2020 Wonders from the ocean I glimpsed last year Are calling me back, alone this time No camera, no crowd. Let me lie next to the water, let gravity pull my…
Nature… Elusive 24 Mar 20206 Mar 2020 - Gerard Sarnat Gerard Sarnat is a physician, executive, academic and social activist. Gerry is an MD who’s built and staffed current homeless and ex-prisoner clinics as well as a…
Nature… Maple Tree 22 Mar 20206 Mar 2020 A maple tree begins as a seed. The soil bears nourishment and water gives life. The sun brings opportunity. Grow, child. The maple tree grows. Your branches reach for Heaven…
Nature… Corn Lilies 21 Mar 20206 Mar 2020 Winter breaking, spring in the making I was hiking through sage brush when melting snow revealed green shoots lily namesakes for stalks of cereal crop kernels feeding humans and livestock.…
Flash Fiction… Thingvellir, Iceland 20 Mar 20206 Mar 2020 Walk through these broken skins of Earth. You will see the world tearing apart. You feel like you might tear along with it. Was that the groans of a ruptured…
Nature… Black Swallowtail Caterpillars on Hairy Angelica 19 Mar 20202 Mar 2020 -Photograph by Richard Lebovitz Richard Lebovitz is a former educator and magazine editor in Atlanta. He is currently involved in rescuing native plants and creating habitats to replace environments lost…
