Water Summer of Floods 23 Jan 202515 Dec 2024 This summer we learnedlessons in hydrology—the continuousmovement of water,the lateral systemsrain overwhelms,the way precipitationfar off translatesinto weeks of overflow.Ephemeral streams,flood pulses, meanders.How this languageof interconnectionand divergenceteaches patternsabout what littlewe control.…
Nature Waters to Cross 22 Jan 202521 Jan 2025 There are always mountains and waters to cross;rushing small rivers over rocks, eddying around boulders,flecks of white foam swirl into lace geometries,fly over themselves, get in their own wayas if…
Water To Do or Not to Do 21 Jan 202515 Dec 2024 For Alex There’s a hole in my to do listwhich lets me peer throughto the other side of importancewhere a murmuring streamof consciousnessbreaks downwhat is timeboundlike water eroding rockcontinuously…the so-called…
Nature Three Poems from “Love Songs to a City Lake” 20 Jan 202520 Jan 2025 Three Poems from “Love Songs to a City Lake” Paired Music: Gymnopeide, Eric Satie The Four A.Ms.You know them. Wakeful, far from her.I think of her skin, its surface tension,…
Water Still Waters 19 Jan 202530 Nov 2024 The water is always stilldisturbed only by rain or windshattering the glass surfaceor in the winter the blowskimming sideways acrosslike ghost skaters.Nothing lives belowthe pale gray.No murkiness denoting lifenor twisting…
Nature Finger Painting 18 Jan 202511 Jan 2025 When I reach for the river along this pageand bend its colors under my fingers,I never always know exactly wherewe are flowing, and I’m even a littlefearful that as we…
Water The Waters of Life 17 Jan 202530 Nov 2024 I go to lakes and streamsfor different reasons.Lakes show what is alwayspresent reflected on the water,contained by a shoreline,the paradox of forever caughtin here and nowlike the sacredin the profane.I…
Nature FORGIVENESS? 16 Jan 202511 Jan 2025 A rodent’s morality.The heart?Symbol of mortality—Open to the canyonWhen the clouds pour inCarrying the chortlesOf ravens. The birds, themselves,Disappear, as usual,Into the nothingnessOf the storm. The wise juncos hideIn chamisa;…
Nature #315: Trawling Aubrey Ponds 15 Jan 202526 Nov 2024 Discovered twelve luminescent creaturesTrawling aubrey ponds Downy feathered ducklingsa dozen on this dayat peace nibbling green eel grassReassured by Mother Goose sidling over gadwalls just a few weeks oldThese creatures…
Nature I Always Sit at Starboard 14 Jan 202511 Jan 2025 I always sit at Starboard:I always sit at starboard when I am out at sea,My beard curled with salt and sunbeaten inky skin.Who is the guy in Greek mythology? Odysseus…
Water trembling 13 Jan 202525 Nov 2024 Arlene Geller Arlene Geller's poetry has appeared in Tiferet Journal, White Enso, and Tiny Seed, among other literary journals and anthologies. Two poetry collections, The Earth Claims Her and Hear…
Nature the colors between snowflakes 12 Jan 202511 Jan 2025 my mother was so optimisticshe could see the bright side of a train wreck.perhaps during winter, she would focus onthe colors between snowflakes such as the red tube slides, green…
Water compass (a) rose 11 Jan 202523 Nov 2024 Cardinal directions were always a slippery concept to me.North was elusive, ever-shifting,an adult secret I would never be privy to.When I was 12, wemoved to a small town on Lake Winnipeg. Lake Winnipeg: from…
Nature dry 10 Jan 202523 Dec 2024 before the rain returns iwant to remember skinpeeling on my lips,hands rubbing roughagainst my arms on cooling nights. iwant to rememberleaves veined brownlike rivers naked withstale silt; spinning on rusted…
Water Ocean Tells Her Story 9 Jan 202523 Nov 2024 Ships scrawl cursive across ultramarine,lines of wake, swirling foam.Leaping dolphins and sailfishprovide punctuation.Foghorns moan. Waves crash.Whales reveal secretsin madrigals we cannot decipher.Crab drowse among soft-spoken reeds.Oysters and clams huddlein calcified…
Nature Summer Soak 8 Jan 202523 Dec 2024 The black sky bull roarsfearless lightening pulsessoaked plants cowerdove’s nestle under eaves Listen to the storm’s callthe rain drummingthe keening windto the clash of Gods on high. Ann Chiappetta Ann…
Water He’s still here 7 Jan 202523 Nov 2024 Like a ceramicist molding his medium into perfect forms, his hands morph my body like moist clay. He surrounds me like a kiln and just as his sintering is about…
Nature Awakening 6 Jan 202523 Dec 2024 Life changed in a moment,Breaking the dam of all that I knew.Waters crashed my body,Sunk me like a lost ship. Buried deep in cold, heavy dirt,An icy, stinging death.Yet, even…
Water Germination 5 Jan 202523 Nov 2024 Don’t forget the pain. Don’tturn your back on the pain. It is notsomething to erasewith a kiss. Holysadness, holy spirit, holy –pleasure. We are flames, flamesalchemizing breath into light.I am…
Nature Forests seem to burn constantly now, 4 Jan 202523 Dec 2024 and though I have prayed for water allsummer, supplicating the skyto extinguish this asthmatic smoke,today, I lower my head as if trappedunder a gray cloud ceiling this rain announces its reunionto…
Water Salmon in Cedar Creek 3 Jan 202523 Nov 2024 End of summer and rain has fallenevery day for more than a weekproviding swift, high water in streams.Maybe I summoned them, subconsciously,in a language of bricks and mortar,adding a fireplace…
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