Nature Jellyfish 13 Feb 20259 Feb 2025 You dream of form:I appear in water.You dream of time:I begin to pulsate. You dream of life:I, made in water,Made of water,Move in water. (Somewhere, on landThere is a missing…
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,…
Nature My Personal Relationship With the Avocado: History and Evolution 11 Feb 20259 Feb 2025 Avocado,Alligator pear,Avocado pear. Avocados—birthed inMesoamerica, they comefrom both outcrossingand self-joy. Avocados are relics froman evolutionary antiquemall, no natural dispersersleft to spread their seeds. Avocados should neverbe chosen with a stemattached—the…
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…
Nature Kings Channel I 9 Feb 20258 Feb 2025 A wrecked mountain bikeand a shopping trolley marooned in the silt,Their grey brown hulks poke skywardwaiting for the tide to return and claim them.The dog busy sniffing the reeds didn’t…
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,…
Nature His River 7 Feb 20257 Feb 2025 Erich von Hungen Erich von Hungen lives under a giant Norfolk pine in a century old house. His writing has appeared in The Write Launch, Tiny Seed, Green Ink Press,…
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…
Nature The Rhythm of the Ocean 5 Feb 20255 Feb 2025 Under the blue hypnotic waves,The sea bed lies and the ocean sways.Dancing to its hypnotic beat,Crashing into the smooth concrete. Licking and lapping the vacant shore,Water thirsting for something more.Tugging and…
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…
Nature Down in the Flood 3 Feb 202525 Jan 2025 Doug Barrett Doug Barrett lived for many years in the Eastern Sierra region, where he taught at Sierra Nevada College, Deep Springs College, and Western Nevada College. He now lives…
Water Humboldt Lagoon 2 Feb 202515 Dec 2024 in the murky lagoonripples of water, summonedby the summer wind — steadied heartbeats Dom Blanco Dom Blanco is Cuban American writer originally from Miami, FL, now based in Chicago, IL.…
Nature Floating a Camellia 1 Feb 202525 Jan 2025 flower-shaped glass bowl,pink petals foldedlike delicate tissuein crystal well water,filaments of sprinkled saffron,one glossy green leaffor dramatic contrast—from sand to bloom,the Earth on my table. Diane Elayne Dees Diane Elayne…
Water HOW I BECAME PURE FLAME 31 Jan 202515 Dec 2024 Sailing through phosphorescentwaters at night, I resisted sleep.Wanting to keep awake, I would takea walk on the deck to be swept upin the beauty of it all – crystal rivers…
Nature Depths 30 Jan 202525 Jan 2025 Lake Christopher has taken the whisper moon hostageswallowed the smudge clouds to the west, held themon its unrippled surface, broken only by emerging Hexagenia. If I brave the spiders to…
Water The Surface of the Sea 29 Jan 202515 Dec 2024 In night’s embrace the moon descends beyond mountains’ reflectionstill searching the sea’s surface for her own clear reflection. Like a pizza slicer the moon cuts into the farthest wavewithout a…
Nature When the Water and Sand Dance 28 Jan 202525 Jan 2025 When the water and sand dance, whence (whence?)their music? What is that music? What sense, whatcomposition surfs itself in? Yes, the water—itsbazillion droplets, the mini-jetsam line it etches.Yes, the sand—its…
Water Norris Lake, 1948 27 Jan 202515 Dec 2024 Like green taffeta,a silky swirl of shadeslaps the boat’s sides—Norris Lake, my fatherat the helm, his outboardpowering us across the waterto our favorite island—three days of swimming,fishing, sleeping curledon a…
Nature ocean poem 26 Jan 202521 Jan 2025 from decades of looking intothis magnificent creationi have come to see the oceanas something of a big brotherwho pushes meinto more joy than is mortally fairwhich makes me wonderwhat does…
Water Being Water 25 Jan 202515 Dec 2024 I am water flowing with ease.No destination.No outcome.No purpose to be had.In this moment, I am water.A rushing river rapidly rippling.In this moment a creek, small, steady,silent flow through slumbering…
Nature Ecosystem of a Stone 24 Jan 202521 Jan 2025 After Sea Structure II by Phil Dike IThe sun doesn’t seemto understand a constantspasm. Count it –every 5-7 secondsfor days/weeks. IIThe sea instructs aboutebb and flow. The crashingsound surrounds. Seagullsshout.…
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