Nature… Early Bird 31 Oct 202030 Oct 2020 Some bird in the still black- Blue speckle of morning Is singing Is putting forth such throat praise To the glories Of this new day From the tree top Outside…
Nature Poetry… First Snow 31 Oct 202029 Oct 2020 Arriving in the crease of dawn not quite light not quite raw like a whirling dervish in the sand ecstatic flakes begin to land haphazardly across a stretch of lawn…
Featured Poet… Featured Poet: Michelle Sylliboy 31 Oct 202028 Oct 2020 Exchange tobacco offerings honor value between each world by reconnecting spirit to conditions with no control life bursting at the seams our strength is belief courage felt from within breath…
Nature… Song of the Amargosa Toad 31 Oct 202027 Oct 2020 I’m just a toad I don’t even croak. I make a bizarre sound Like a shriek That seems to belie my Predicament. I live in one place in the world.…
Nature… News Flash 30 Oct 202029 Oct 2020 Not that an alligator in a Chicago lagoon doesn’t matter; not that a woman put her kids in a swimming pool on top of her van is borderline child abuse;…
Nature… My Studio is My Wild 29 Oct 202028 Oct 2020 my studio is my wild house plants adorn my antique wood desk window ledges are alive succulents bonsai fern climbers bamboo money plant African violets orchids and flowering geraniums i…
Nature… Lombard Street, San Francisco 29 Oct 202023 Oct 2020 Long claws scrape down fog-slick stones, survival not a question, but an act. Masked eyes shine with street lamp gold as small gray paws corner baguette crusts in pots of…
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… 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… 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… 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… 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…
