Nature… Obituary: A Tree 28 Oct 2020 Her birth was born in scat. A seed that had passed through the inner lining of a grey fox that had gulped her up on accident as he, in turn,…
Nature Poetry… Thought From Bed 28 Oct 202016 Oct 2020 I watch as the sheer curtains inhale and exhale. I am succumbed with grief on how I’ve seemed to lose the inherit stillness that lives within and around me.…
Nature Poetry… As the Evening Fell 28 Oct 202020 Oct 2020 The thickest, grey tarpaulin, of an overcast sky, deepening grey, in minutes first, then, each second, the full spectrum, of the colour, from beginning to end. The rain,…
Nature Photography… Gossamer 27 Oct 202018 Oct 2020 Photo by Alex Brown Alex Brown is a writer living in Atlanta, GA. Her work can be found at http://alexbrownwriting.com. She has been dabbling in film photography during the…
Nature… Lessons from a Ruby-Throated Hummingbird 27 Oct 202027 Oct 2020 Your existence is a miracle. It matters not your size or shape Gifts nor limitations Obstacles nor achievements, You exist in the family of created things On purpose and purposefully.…
Nature… Common Ground 27 Oct 202023 Oct 2020 You hear him, seizing night and day underground in the basement, loudly listening with his legs, scraping with his forewings, speaking in the house, yet still in the wild. Is…
Nature… Elephant 26 Oct 202022 Oct 2020 The elephant said as his eye turned red I fear our days are numbered, then raised his mighty trunk on high and through the jungle lumbered Ten hunters came in…
Nature Flash Fiction… The Garden 26 Oct 202015 Oct 2020 The quote on my teabag reads, “A garden is a delight to the eye and a solace for the soul” bringing about a memory of my grandfather kneeling at…
Nature… Late Autumn Raccoon 25 Oct 202025 Oct 2020 The embers of sunset still glow as the lone raccoon skulks from his den. All night he scavenges dry kernels from shriveled cobs scattered across a stubbled field. Full and…
Nature Photography… The Silent Softness of the Swamp 25 Oct 202022 Oct 2020 My morning starts. The morning promise as the sun peeks through the branches. The trees, brooding and silent. Their trunks rising into the mist, standing the test of time. …
Nature Poetry… At a Rest Area Outside Des Moines 25 Oct 202015 Oct 2020 Cheryl sees it first, a deer as white as a child's paper cut-out grazing with the herd in the sunset stubble past the parking lot where we've stopped the…
Nature Poetry… Beach Walk 25 Oct 202015 Oct 2020 Leave the car at the Old Coast Guard Station parking lot, leave traffic noises, the low bustle of tourists through pier village shops, for the dirt path between cedars. …
Nature Poetry… Feathers 24 Oct 202015 Oct 2020 Poem by Karina Lutz Karina Lutz worked as a sustainable energy advocate for three decades. Earlier, she received an MSJ from Medill School of Journalism, and worked as an editor,…
Nature… Parsnips 24 Oct 202024 Oct 2020 Such tiny discs, paper thin: most blow away on the wind and seeds that stick sit tight and wait before deciding to germinate. But those that wake in this clay…
Nature Flash Fiction… Why the Creek Weeps 23 Oct 202015 Oct 2020 Photos and Story by Ricardo Jose Gonzalez-Rothi An academic physician and scientific writer, Ricardo has had his fiction, creative non-fiction and poetry featured in the U.S. and in the U.K.,…
Nature… Blue Milk 23 Oct 202018 Oct 2020 A late April snow clouds the view of fence line and the trees are an elegant velcro black against the hills. The soft thrum of fattened snowflake drowns sound into…
Nature… Tunneling 22 Oct 202022 Oct 2020 below the ground now wet and cold the old dirt greeting the new and becoming mud expanding as the water slips through each surface gap, you worm your way through…
Nature Poetry… Escape 22 Oct 202015 Oct 2020 Nature is my escape anywhere I am. I go wild in my mind when I think of it. It’s a refuge anytime I need to get away, To take…
Nature… Perfectly Imperfect 21 Oct 2020 In order of appearance: Perfectly Imperfect Devine Ordinary Mind's Eye Photographs by Nicole Thompson My name is Nicole Thompson and I have had a passion for photography for about…
Nature… Requiem for a Woodlouse 21 Oct 202018 Oct 2020 Busy sweeping up my house I came across a woodlouse lying on the curve of its back beside an armchair. What, asleep my love? Dead, my dove? I saw that…
Nature Poetry… Circles 21 Oct 202014 Oct 2020 I am considering circles while I watch the big crow pick at the newly dead carcass of the mallard duck, so fresh the emerald band at his neck…
