Nature… Prayer to the Godlings II 13 Jul 2019 Bless the scabs and eyes black as watermelon seeds. Bless the heads bleeding, anointed like green mangoes’ red ripening over their crowns. Bless the sprouts breaking through their own skin…
Nature… Night Music 12 Jul 2019 A milky way of fireflies winked, we lay unafraid in dank grass excited by magic lost in a din of tree frogs locusts, crickets their love songs blanketing darkness. The…
EARTH… Hammock Harmonies 9 Jul 201918 May 2019 Cradled in the gentle breeze, I sway back and forth, studying the cerulean sky. Daylight breaks through curtains of clouds, spotlighting trees which extend bark chandeliers, their pine cone candles…
Nature… Eastertide’s Taint 9 Jul 2019 Bijou buds soon to bloom damp blossoms, stinking of pink productive perfume scent. taffy, gravity of static passions made dynamic as the worlds we’ve dreamt. Beckons she does, with…
AIR… The Four Directions 7 Jul 201918 May 2019 East Dawn ushers in spring robin songs wake Earth’s sleepers run to red dusk, Go South Breathe in summer air accept balance from long light run with Deer heart, Go…
Nature… Timing 7 Jul 2019 Frigid inhalations taper Winter’s sugar frost fades Damp brittle garden limbs Jobless stalks retire Prickly framework of coneflowers, phlox and Russian sage Light’s shifting angles Sun blades fold in…
AIR… Hurricane Season 5 Jul 201917 May 2019 Hurricane Alicia was the first named storm of the 1983 Hurricane season. For almost 20 years this Category 3 storm held the record for damage costs. The name Alicia was…
Nature… Serenity 4 Jul 2019 Photograph by Stephanie Jackson Stephanie Jackson is a mother of three. She writes for many audiences and enjoys landscape photography in her spare moments. https://semisweetnothings.wixsite.com/writing
Nature… Planting Grass 2 Jul 2019 He spread the seeds across the soil with care, the way the rain sets moisture down just where it needs to be. He worked in quietness and solitude. He sent…
FIRE… No Two Fires the Same 2 Jul 20194 Jul 2019 - Russell Willis Russell Willis’s professional career began in engineering and moved to higher education and later online education and ministry. He has a Ph.D. from Emory University, and much…
Nature… Driftwood; 1965 30 Jun 2019 ‘According to Norse mythology, the first humans, Ask and Embla, were formed out of two pieces of driftwood, an ash and an elm, by the God Odin and his brothers,…
Nature… Utqiagvik 30 Jun 201916 May 2019 We came in search of the whale’s back and instead, we found its heart. -Poem by Vanna Boccadori -Photograph by Emily Cayer
Nature… A Sonnet for the Birds 28 Jun 2019 Anhingas and ravens crow for the emus, which parrot the moas and the kiwis of the Albatross Isles en paradisum’s view, where the petrels join the kites lofting freely …
Nature… BY A STREAM YOU COULD LEAP ACROSS, EASILY 28 Jun 201916 May 2019 From the speckled pond beneath the streetlamps, flit tiny fish. They venture out to the ripples, the ruffles the downhill run. They could be trout or some other tiny torpedo…
EARTH… Brandy Station 26 Jun 201916 May 2019 - Photograph by John Kinney I teach ESL and Linguistics at Northern Virginia Community College. My photographs were recently published in the Nassau Journal and in Float Magazine. I am…
Nature… Basking in the Sun, Heron Landing, Juvenile Eagle 25 Jun 2019 Photographs by Cynthia Connolly I am Cynthia Connolly, a hobbyist photographer who recently discovered a love of birds and wildlife refuges. Luckily I live 10 minutes away from Nisqually…
EARTH… The Mountain Lion 24 Jun 201930 Oct 2019 Through the smoke of wildfires, the mountain lion had the same tint as the moon— dark copper, as well as I could see through the haze that burned my eyes,…
EARTH… AWASH IN THE DESERT 23 Jun 201920 May 2019 He stoops and rubs his hand across the rough stubble of the mown wheat and stares up into the noon sun which reflects like a beacon off the mostly empty…
Nature… Toward an Arctic Circle 23 Jun 2019 There are lines we cross borders we step past where flesh and bone meet cranberries and club moss outside the truth I like to call our lower forty-eight. We paddle…
Nature Birth of Rain 22 Jun 20199 May 2019 Leaves turn their backs on me silver sides flapping like huddled gossips whisper about the coming rain. Pregnant clouds bloom ripen into labor, they've been holding on for a cool,…
AIR… Joining Friends 20 Jun 201920 May 2019 May morning on the White River -Martha Nance Martha Nance is a physician whose iPhone was very happy a few years ago when it learned that it could take…
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