Nature Anyway 10 Apr 20262 Apr 2026 god made a mess of the sky splashing moonlight in the grass in the field deserted she took to the side roads those hidden trails for chanting and white breath,…
Nature Once Born, 9 Apr 20262 Apr 2026 I let the answer go.It flew across the meadow and away.Really, just gone like that.This much we share. I wasn't sure what to do next.You must have felt the same.Life…
Nature Promise of Blue 8 Apr 20262 Apr 2026 brightblue bird daythere perched is ablue bird jayhe picks at the pinecollecting needlesperhaps for a nesthe pauses, lookingat me with a flicker of obsidianI stare backfrom thirty feet highGranite Mountain…
Nature The Path Utters to Itself 7 Apr 20262 Apr 2026 It's narrow and winding, strewn with pine needles.My arm brushes against wet leaves, twigs crunch like cereal underfoot.Something in the air saysI've entered a lingering sceneinvolving last night's new moon.Luna…
Nature Heron Royalty 6 Apr 20262 Apr 2026 She poses across the pond.I, at courtier distance,stand behind branches, concealing the trail.She is poised – tall, regal, gilded –her long yellow-orange beak an early morning sunbeam pointing south.She is…
Nature The Possible Path 5 Apr 20262 Apr 2026 One sunlit spring day I discovered a pathOf green and wood and dappleIt offered two ways, to the right and the leftJust one, though, was even and suppleOne chosen and…
Nature Pathway 4 Apr 20262 Apr 2026 I walk this pathway,growing steadily narrow.My life breath wanes,wrapped in constant sorrow.Many memories resonate,moments, I still cherish.Reflections of our love,time cannot tarnish.Upon my life’s pathway,I journey with solemn guilt.Mistakes resonate…
Nature Forest Elk 3 Apr 20262 Apr 2026 massive and muscled, a white-rumped, bearded beauty on the cusp of rut,he is progeny of an ancestral herd that knew this place - before the farm, before the roadwhen the…
Nature Roads Untravelled 2 Apr 20262 Apr 2026 Had we each taken other forkswhile treading the great sweepof all those years then still waiting to be trodour paths might have joined sooner,but would we now be sick and…
Nature Butterfly 31 Mar 202623 Mar 2026 This lovely butterfly suddenly visited for a short while near me, before flying off so quickly.Those we love pass by as my wife just did, just as this lovely visitor,…
Nature Paths we follow/paths we make 25 Mar 202619 Mar 2026 Paths we followBelong to othersBuy safe passage through strange landsBut separate–Protect secrets of the forestWhere shining eyes watch,Pricked ears listen,Stay strangers.A path we make is ours,An immersion, a baptism.Long ribboned…
Nature Blazing My Own Trail 22 Mar 202613 Mar 2026 Solivagant – wandering my path alone.I love wandering - so much to discover -so much to learn -so many moments of wonder.When I can’t see the path ahead of meI…
Nature Morning Prayer 21 Mar 202621 Mar 2026 Our days begin uphillThe route the same:sun, snow, fog, rain ―how many hundred mornings?Each unique. We walk, six legs together;two and four,pause where fields roll out of foreststo receive scent…
Nature Correction Notice 21 Mar 202627 Mar 2026 – March 17 Publication Error We recently published a poem on March 17 under an author’s name that was not their work. Due to an internal error, a poem that…
Nature With My Wife’s Ashes, I Walk the Camino de Santiago 21 Mar 202613 Mar 2026 We are on our way, drenchedin doubt and faith. Memorieshang on arms and reach out for grace; the ugly smell of dayson days, miles stacked on milesof decay swirling out…
Nature We set off into the woods 20 Mar 202613 Mar 2026 Never a glance back.Nothing in our pocketsbut the stones and pineconeswe find along the way—the occasional treasureof bone and eggshell, mossand feather. We knew the storyof Hansel and Gretel.The old…
Nature Snowbirding in Charleston 19 Mar 202613 Mar 2026 Leaving, what holds me back?what is this backwards tug?I lock the door and hang the key.Driving south, low countryis a 3D photocopyof what I’ve left:Marsh stretching to the seawith barrier…
Nature Mother Sparrow 18 Mar 202613 Mar 2026 The sparrow tells me that being alone is my chance to singThat the time it took for the baby bird to rise and fall out of the nestHitting every branch…
Nature The Unplowed Road beyond Ohanapecosh 16 Mar 202613 Mar 2026 How can there be these tracksacross the hardened crust of snowand no trace of their makers?Many have passedor made incursions here:elk and coyote,rabbit shadowed by fox,junco and jay. I've built…
Nature Paths From One Life To Another 15 Mar 202613 Mar 2026 I.mountain streams flow downinto each otherout of their sounds--Buson High above the fray and clatter, a mountainstands and waits. Every day her streamscarry bits of her away with their flow—gravel,…
Nature The Week of Swans 14 Mar 202613 Mar 2026 Stagnant, stuck, stinking without visible rot,this slow time of no healing. Heart dulled to stupid,thought a weedy pasture, rivergone obscenely dry. No reeds, no fish, no stub of stunted prayeruntil…
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