Lessons from the Wild… Three Answers to Any Dilemma 9 Jan 20218 Jan 2021 I. The Thunderstorm After sudden rain water rests as the puddle gathers blossoms. II. The Northern Blizzard While the howl covers a continent meek…
Lessons from the Wild Le Futur Proche 9 Jan 20219 Jan 2021 Don’t ask me to live for a far-off future, the prospect of falling in love again or someday grandchildren. Don’t tell me to take walks every day like vitamins, so…
Lessons from the Wild I Like You Best Without Makeup 8 Jan 20217 Jan 2021 The granite ribs and peaks of the mountain rise out of ponderosa pine. Turning from my pillow, I look over the wrinkles and ridges, unblemished crests slipping from the robe…
Lessons from the Wild… Hold Gently the Things That You Love 8 Jan 20218 Jan 2021 Photo by Carolyn Adams Carolyn Adams’ poetry and art have been published in the pages, and on the covers of Wend Poetry Journal, Steam Ticket, Apercus Quarterly, Calyx, and…
Nature Diver Tells How Shark Bit His Head 8 Jan 20211 Jan 2021 Summary of a S.F. Chronicle article by George Snyder, Chronicle North Bay Bureau Diver Tells How Shark Bit His Head Only minor wounds in attack at beach on Sonoma Coast…
Lessons from the Wild Thank you 7 Jan 2021 Cracked sidewalks of unincorporated Wisconsin: a woman yells at her dogs to stop barking. These are outdoor dogs with outdoor homes, ones that can stomach hours of cold. Your own…
Lessons from the Wild… River 7 Jan 20217 Jan 2021 I thought about you today A maelstrom of lonely Stirred beneath my bones And I remembered that most Of my life was lived near the river So maybe the river…
Lessons from the Wild… Stone Ponds Way Trail 7 Jan 20211 Jan 2021 In the ice kingdom above Upper Lena Lake, my son and I are the only moving shapes. We follow an indistinct path and trade leads, because the practice of drafting…
Lessons from the Wild A Lament for Blackthorn Blossom 6 Jan 20217 Jan 2021 Only last week, its froth framed this Welsh lane with a wedding arch, a pair of willow warbler, the happy couple. Meanwhile the virus was in hideous rise, morgues appeared…
Lessons from the Wild Credo for a Pandemic 6 Jan 20215 Jan 2021 I believe that the house finch - orange cap and breast lifted each morning to call to its mate in the fir tree - holds for safekeeping my memory of…
Lessons from the Wild… A Lament for Blackthorn Blossom 6 Jan 20218 Jan 2021 Only last week, its froth framed this Welsh lane with a wedding arch, a pair of willow warbler, the happy couple. Meanwhile the virus was in hideous rise, morgues…
Lessons from the Wild… Moonlight Whispers 6 Jan 20216 Jan 2021 Moonlight, silver, streams through trees between clouds and night wind. Spring Peepers chirping, cicadas singing over grass rustling, waving, waving under wind. These frame, define, infuse meaning into life: my…
Lessons from the Wild This Field Has Eyes, This Wood Has Ears 5 Jan 20216 Jan 2021 In the canopy, on the floor, a story is written on stem, tangle-vine, rock. Owl sits in judgement. Raven disputes the verdict. Field mouse musters a new defense. Elms drape…
Lessons from the Wild… Wildness Provides 5 Jan 20211 Jan 2021 Wildness provides transcendental wisdom Seeping from nature’s system Enlightenment to listening youth Hidden, yet self-evident truth Warm breezy pineywood sages Sparrow with lessons for the ages Sings of seeds and…
Lessons from the Wild… A Mountain Mulls 4 Jan 20214 Jan 2021 I am a mountain, Like my peers, Big and strong Tall and long, I may be an Abode of spirits Or a pile of ore, A resting site For ancestors.…
Lessons from the Wild Vermont Mountains 4 Jan 20213 Jan 2021 Poem by Russell Willis. Ethicist and online education entrepreneur, Russell Willis emerged as a poet in 2019. Since then, his poetry has been published (or accepted for publication) in…
Lessons from the Wild… Anxious Autumn Leaves 4 Jan 202127 Dec 2020 Anxious autumn leaves- Wind through trees Blowing howling Shrieking tearing Violently ripped From their branches. Spinning wildly Soaring spiraling Up and around Until until until Falling Falling Falling…
Lessons from the Wild Surrender 3 Jan 20215 Jan 2021 Poem By Geneva Toland Geneva Toland is a writer, farmer, teacher and naturalist who currently lives in Southwest Colorado. She loves to wander through the woods, searching for tracks,…
Lessons from the Wild… Corvus corax 3 Jan 20211 Jan 2021 A raven coasts over the hill, over the late-autumn maples all amber, umber and ocher. He grasps the top-most branch of a white pine and looses guttural croaks that carry…
Lessons from the Wild… The Unraveling 2 Jan 202127 Dec 2020 Kingfisher was putting on a show. Circling overhead as I soaked my parched skin in the rocky pool, fed by the hidden spring. They landed on a branch near…
Lessons from the Wild… I find myself 2 Jan 20212 Jan 2021 By Josephine LoRe Josephine LoRe is a first-generation Canadian who has survived covid mainly through the gift of zoom, which has transformed her computer screen into a portal opening onto…
Lessons from the Wild The Great Monarch Migration 2 Jan 20211 Jan 2021 Today travel restrictions due to COVID-19 keep tourists away from the Great Monarch Migration. But two men linked to the butterfly reserve, outspoken to illegal logging in the forest, have…
Lessons from the Wild The Night the Whippoorwill Sang 1 Jan 202124 Dec 2020 Dinner simmered on the Whisperlite. Our hiking-tired bare feet prodded and pushed into the soft, dry oak leaves, the relief of shoelessness exquisite. The forest floor held the heat of…
Lessons from the Wild… Revisiting a Sanctuary for a Child Who Found Her Freedom 1 Jan 202127 Dec 2020 Poem by Joni Caggiano Joni's blog is the-inner-child, where she has published poetry, photography, and short stories. Take a look at Joni's work in Spillwords Press NYC (where she…
Lessons from the Wild… Deep Ecology of the Great Smoky Mountains 31 Dec 202019 Dec 2020 Once again, birds singing in the rain, and though I’m far from home, I’m home again – this time in America’s most visited park. Looking out from my…
Lessons from the Wild If the Earth had hands 31 Dec 202030 Dec 2020 The earth seemed to shake It shook as if to tell me to stop, to quit it. I couldn’t feel it of course. Once I did it again, the earth…
Lessons from the Wild… Nature’s Layers 30 Dec 202029 Dec 2020 Nature's Layers Čavljak, Bosnia and Herzegovina Photograph by Micaela Edelson Hailing from Salem, Oregon, Micaela Edelson is a passionate writer and photographer aiming to shed light on humanity’s prioritization of…
