Water Opening Act 3 May 20251 Feb 2026 Opening act: a raft of sea lionsgorge on stunned anchoviestoo profuse for predators’ pouches.Glistening steel breaks the surface,hunch-backed submarine bullswhose radar locates our purring motorone hundred miles away. Big boy…
Water The Upper Chiwawa 2 May 202530 Mar 2025 Take out the hook,put me back in the waterand let me swimagainst the current,from mouth to mouthof river feeding riverthen further upstream.I'll measure distance by smell.Channels will narrow.Your lures will…
Water Water Weighs 30 Apr 202530 Mar 2025 It rushes, it trickles, it batters, it flows. For overnine months I floated in two poundsof water. And when my mother’s broke, I madea promise to understand the water’s ways.Ways…
Water never. 28 Apr 202530 Mar 2025 In the desolate chambers of my weary heart,Lies a darkness so profound, tearing me apart,You'll never taste the bitterness that I've sipped,You'll never feel the weight of the tears I've…
Water Waves 26 Apr 202530 Mar 2025 In the summers we were split upMy brother and I would go to my father’s parentsMy stepbrother and stepsisterWould go to their mother’s motherMy dad and step mother would travel…
Water Water Pleasures 24 Apr 202530 Mar 2025 Water will find a way as it pleasesand we find a way to water.The dog swims in the river head hightrying to catch the sparkles of splashlittle sprites in enticing…
Water Cycles 21 Apr 202530 Mar 2025 Spring showers petal the pavement with spent dogwood and azalea. An invisible piano spills Chopin from an open window. A young woman hurries past, laughing with her swaddled child. Cars…
Water Water, Everywhere 19 Apr 202530 Mar 2025 A mirrored splash of sunny skies on streamsWinds its lazy way in lonely forests.Heaven meets Earth to share its loving dreams,As soaring trees reach the skies above to caress.Sounds echo…
Water A River Sheds its Skin 17 Apr 202530 Mar 2025 A winter river sheds its skinlike a shark loses its teeth.Frost-bites its own tongue,nipping Coyote's nose as he drinks fromthe banks and gnaws thefour bony ankles of Doe,whose legs traversethe…
Water The Ocean Has Its Way With Me 15 Apr 202530 Mar 2025 The ocean has its way with meCrashing waves pacing my heartA razor-edged horizon parsing my soulDividing this from my other livesSalt, the spice of calmBreeze, the whisper of the belovedSand…
Water Crossing the Metolius 13 Apr 20258 Mar 2025 In camo he pushesthrough shallow rapidsbalancing fishing polein one hand, daughteron his shoulders. All pink,ruffled and blond she bobs,fingers drumming on daddy’ssweaty forehead, unwittinglyshading his watchful eyesfrom the trippingsun.- Robin…
Water Blue Water Serenade 11 Apr 20258 Mar 2025 Languidly lilting melodic water whispers,lapping, lapping, all our troubles melt away,lulling, lulling, we gently gradually listen,a lullaby, a lullaby, the river runs through.We dance soulful to the full moon tunes,the…
Water Song of the Books (or Amhran na Leabhar) 9 Apr 202514 Aug 2025 is an Irish tune I’m learning to playon the fiddle, an 1840’s lament, in keyof D – about the drowning of a teacher’sbooks, lost at sea: a library of treasuredtexts,…
Water The Islands of the Gods(Illas Cíes) 7 Apr 20257 Mar 2025 Come here with me, andbreathe the scent of salt and spicyeucalyptus as we walk throughcrackling sandy leaf litter,past crescent beaches;where spiny lizards skitterbetween boulders gilded in shining lichen,and just-fledged seagulls…
Water Rivers 5 Apr 20257 Mar 2025 Rivers are arteries of color running through a wild land.Dusk turns Fox’s river into a flame,a turbulence of dream songs rushing into darknesswhere rivers flow into the seaand seas empty…
Water grief river 3 Apr 20252 Mar 2025 - Natasha N. DeonarainNatasha N. Deonarain is the author of two chapbooks, winner of the 2020 Three Sisters Award by NELLE magazine and Best of the Net Nominee by Rogue…
Water The Sound of Your Voice 1 Apr 20252 Mar 2025 The words I meant to speakhave slipped away,swallowed into the orange lip of sunrisestretched thin in the darkness,lapped between lakeand low-hanging cloud,indigo on indigo.In the water slapping at my feetI…
Water Water 30 Mar 20252 Mar 2025 Birther, DestroyerIt flows in my bloodImmortal artist eatingThrough stone withChisel teethLeaving sharp fingerprintsOn the rough brown breastsOf the earthThere is nothing ILove more than waterNothing I fear moreEven the shallowsBetray…
Water Forgive the Rocks for being Hard 28 Mar 202516 Feb 2025 A huge boulder blocks the stream.Years ago, it suddenly broke loose from somewhere up the hilland rolled into place,unexpectedly obstructing flow;seemingly immovable.And just like that:the old path of the stream…
Water HAZEL IN THE RAIN 26 Mar 202516 Feb 2025 On her father's shouldersHazel is the first to feel the rain.Small drops on her hairand flailing hands. "It's spurting,no, squirting," she says, lispinga little through her baby teeth.She will, of…
Water Oxymoron 24 Mar 202516 Feb 2025 A desert wetland is acontradiction in terms.Is it just a mirage – or do oasesreally exist in the desert?Ephemeral is the survival mode,like an illusion here and gone.In arid places…
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