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…
Nature Waterfront Paddle 16 Apr 202528 Mar 2025 The lighthouse brightens.Summer showcasesSpace, harmfulWithout import of cotton.Typeset, embossed in stone,The crafted tip trailsFelt. IndigoCanals await.Invasive & sleeved in,Years spreadBeyond cleanup,Driving pure rubber.Aquatic accents pleatShade to elbows,Jacquard painted& recycled by…
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…
Nature Deep Ecology 14 Apr 202528 Mar 2025 Praise for the reservoir that shines in manymoods: deep blue, apple green, dark slate.Praise for the afternoon’s slanting rays,October’s bluebird skiesthe solitude I find on her shoresthe high water that…
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…
Nature Tenaya Wave Lace 12 Apr 202528 Mar 2025 Wind-ripple lace tearing on quartz-sharp sands,Silver sunlight threads, twirling, fading, gone –Your brief beauty and design, one understands,Are time’s toys, discarded when day is done. Winds’ repeated weavings cannot last;The…
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…
Nature Gone 10 Apr 202528 Mar 2025 1.No path to the maplesbut sword ferns and moss.Sunbeam, and a leaf turns bright.No one is seeing the leaf light. 2.Waves out past the oyster shelves,pools of sea floor left behind.Anemones…
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,…
Nature Views from the Towpath 8 Apr 202528 Mar 2025 Still waters reflect tall buildings,cool, dark shadows under bridges,reversed graffiti from old walls. There’s buddleia and willow herb,moorhens and a heron fishing :all of them in mirror image,enlivening old watercourse.…
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…
Nature MONTENEGRO 6 Apr 202528 Mar 2025 For A.P. and R.R. The sun rests its tired head on the mountainous curves of Montenegro, its bronzed heartaims arrows of yearning at the Adriatic Sea. The dancer of Budva pleads with the wind to…
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…
Nature The Only Thing That Matters 4 Apr 202528 Mar 2025 There is a bodyof water just downthe road.I would call it by a moreflattering name,wishing it weren’tartificially made,but the truth of itis that it is aretention pond.Rains fall, gently,or violently,their…
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…
Nature “I’ve Known Rivers” 2 Apr 202528 Mar 2025 “I’ve Known Rivers”–a quotation from Langston Hughes I am too soft for these rivers, too worn to attempt morethan a float at this juncture of my age and raw nature.…
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…
Nature Water’s Way 31 Mar 202528 Mar 2025 Glimmering droplets of mistFloat atop the water’s edgeLevitating to the cloudsOnly to come down againFlowing within waterwaysLike veins inside the EarthWe cycle, we renewGiving life to the dirtThe fogginess of…
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…
Nature Spurwink River Mouth 29 Mar 202519 Mar 2025 Walking Higgins Beach in earlyOctober. Long after dawn, the sunis just a cold blur. The summer airis gone. Anyway, this Maine waternever really warms. But my thermosholds coffee, and yours…
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…
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