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.…
Through the Eyes of Nature Tiny Dancer 29 Oct 202027 Oct 2020 Poem by Josephine Pino Josephine Pino is an educator, a poet, a scientist, and hopefully more. She currently lives near Portland, Oregon, but has lived in many places. She…
Nature Flash Fiction… Mother and Child 29 Oct 202018 Oct 2020 I was born on a spring morning when the leaves were half-sprouted and the frost was still sparkling on the grass. My mother, thirsty with pain and exhaustion, licked it…
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,…
Through the Eyes of Nature Subsong 27 Oct 202023 Oct 2020 I called three times across the mountain. I called twice more. I called three times across the mountain and you heard me, from the grass below, when I jumped headlong…
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… 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… 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 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.,…
Through the Eyes of Nature Doe 23 Oct 202015 Oct 2020 My hooves surefooted search for firm ground as panting I cross the icy highway that divides forest food from winter beds I cross safely my chestnut thighs surging and I…
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… 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… Dawn’s Gift 21 Oct 202021 Oct 2020 Standing on the edge of night and day I wash my worries with the rain. And paint my hopes in watercolors across my soul, with a palette of Blush Peony…
Through the Eyes of Nature What Does the Wood Thrush Say? 20 Oct 202014 Oct 2020 What does the wood thrush say? Thus, begins in early May Warbling and bubbling vocalization Speaking to every nation The Creator’s secret concoction To each soul’s provocation Daily the summer…
Nature Flash Fiction… Crow and Sunny 19 Oct 202013 Oct 2020 I used to watch her running through the dog pasture. She was shaggy. Her ears dark and long, almost to the ground, stuck way out from her head. Seven or…
Nature… Postcard from Mars 18 Oct 202014 Oct 2020 I, a small red body floating here where your astronauts dare not venture, send greetings to you there on your hilltop, telescopes trained toward me, you who are manufactured from…
Nature… When We Were Kestrels 17 Oct 202013 Oct 2020 It was easier of course. Riding the thermals only required reaching wide enough to make our wings flush with flattening slate of wind. Landing was harder, but you would expect…
Nature Photography… Natural Perceptions 17 Oct 202017 Oct 2020 Photos by Neil Berkowitz Neil Berkowitz is an emerging photographic artist and printmaker living in Seattle. He pursued a dual major in photography at the Newhouse School…
Nature… Possum at the Compost 16 Oct 202011 Oct 2020 The opussum is a beast as big as a pretty beagle, of grey cullour; yt hath a head like a swyne; eares, feet, and tayle like a ratt; she carries…
