Water AFTER THE FLOOD 22 Mar 202516 Feb 2025 There was a small hollowin the far corner of the yard.In this year, when rainimagines itself Biblicaland the sky has split openlike a gourd of tears,it is overfilled with rain.Two…
Water Salamander Rain 20 Mar 202516 Feb 2025 Catskill March meltsWipes the slate clean of winter’s tracesHoofprints of foraging deerMazes of mouse tunnelsDematerialize to soggy grass and leaves.Snow, Ice - it all runs down the mountain.Rivulets follow old…
Water Marsh Morning 18 Mar 202516 Feb 2025 As the sun rises, mist hangs above the marshas though ocean climbed high in the night,as though great seas cover mighty flames,as though troubles must be drowned.Tall goldenrod and purple…
Water Momentarily 16 Mar 202516 Feb 2025 The ocean spray,the sunbathers,the girl chasingbubbles, the jellyfishwashed ashore,the fossilized sanddollar: all jostleeach other to supportthe larger vista,and I am bombardedlike a moleculeuntil the whole mattersmore than my beingalone.-Laura DideschThe…
Water If This Were My First Time Seeing the World 14 Mar 202516 Feb 2025 Reflected like self-portrait, I’d walkrightthrough it,forest on lake, that green goldthat only oxygenmakes, liquidand alive, and I’dsinkinto my most beautiful last,and first, momentsof being born,like the wagging tailof a fish,…
Water Drift 12 Mar 202516 Feb 2025 the cerulean shore gives way to froth and foam quartz shimmering sand to caress in surprising taupe textures in footprints leading forward to disappear in resplendent indigo mirrors the unknown…
Water Opening Closed Doors 10 Mar 202516 Feb 2025 An older woman like me insertsa key card into a cube.But the door to her hotel roomwill not open.Mine will.I pull back the curtains,see overcast skies.The ocean lures me.A long…
Water Weather Diary 8 Mar 202516 Feb 2025 We build a bed out of snow.Chase the moonlightuntil it’s trappedin the icicles.Memorize the messagethe sun leaves for uson the wall.All the angels meltat our feet.All the worldglistens.-Julia Klatt SingerJulia…
Nature… On First Beach, Olympic Peninsula 6 Mar 202516 Feb 2025 Here is the room for living once known, a place of wild things, wind likeflowers opening, the motion of wide plains of grasses, the sense of sleeptaken on a mattress…
Water Picture Me, an Oxbow Lake 4 Mar 202511 Feb 2025 Away from life’s swift currentsCurved like a new moonIn the early evening sky.I begin my slow evaporation,No river to sustain meIn my dwindling years.I hold dear memoriesBoth tender and tragic,And…
Water Like Water 2 Mar 202511 Feb 2025 Come to me like gently, like waterthat I may surrender weightlessto your ultimate embraceWhen you are ready, come when I am floatingarms by my sides, palms upturned, bodyyielding, gently supported…
Water Lake Carmi with My Daughter 26 Feb 20259 Feb 2025 Sitting behind youin a low-slung kayakI marvel atswinging black braidssliding down your backshiny in the equinox sun.Each stroke of dark waterreminds me of the nightsyou swore you’d never go backto…
Water The Tao of Water 24 Feb 20259 Feb 2025 Like the Alpha-Omega, watercan give life, and take it away;can nourish a whole planet,and wipe its face clean;sits tall on a sky’s throne,and humbly washes your feet.Like humans, watercan fall,…
Water undertow 22 Feb 20259 Feb 2025 Dive into the white rushof uncertain currents,abandon deliberate itineraries,give ourselves overto gold sunrise, whirling spindrift,refreshed sands, unfamiliar trails,new year’s siren song.Let the undertow take uswherever it chooses.Drag us over the…
Water White Water Rafting on the Salmon River, Idaho 18 Feb 20254 Jan 2025 River frigidWhite sand burningSplash rapid splashBetter than DisneylandThe opposite of a cruiseThe making of new friends:Gluten-free friendsReading and movie friendsYoung, fit and drop dead gorgeous friendsMedicare friendsEhlers-Danlos friendsDysfunctional family friendsRiver,…
Water h two o 14 Feb 20254 Jan 2025 my body is seventy percent youyet i am flooded by theenormity of the ocean, forgettingthat it is closer in compositionto my own particulate fluid,until i taste my tears, unlike thefresh…
Water 8 LITTLE WAVE STORIES 12 Feb 202529 Dec 2024 Gloria D. Gonsalves Gloria D. Gonsalves is a poet, author, illustrator, and occasional columnist. Her poems have appeared in Brittle Paper, Galway Review, Eclectica, the Decolonial Passage, The Mantelpiece, Consilience,…
Water Trask River Rhythms 10 Feb 202529 Dec 2024 Sing me a lullaby,comforting and hypnotic,rapture in trilling rapids,wisdom among vast pools.Within a soothing melody,questions find hidden answers.Continuously flowing onward,rhythmic and mesmerizing.A musical welcomedraws mortals to play.Time’s watery cascadingsearches for…
Water All Water Falls Again 8 Feb 202515 Dec 2024 Take your grief to water. To a stream cold and honest.Sit amidst the last of the purple fleabane and the corpseberries that predict the color of winter.Let yourself go slack,…
Water Postcards: August 8, 2008 6 Feb 202515 Dec 2024 Do you remember the storyabout the two lovers who—tethering each other by their hair—jumped straight into the insatiable belly of the ocean;how its mouth foams in delightas it eats away…
Water Perseid Shower: Monomoy bay 4 Feb 202515 Dec 2024 We squint, crane our necks, searchingThrill to white-hot star showers blazing across ebony skiesOur silent wishes fall as burning streaks of lightinto the dark rippling waters of Monomoy bayI wade…
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