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…
Nature Waterborne Rainbows 5 Mar 202525 Feb 2025 waterborne rainbows paint the skyrefracted sunlight heals my tearsprism pathways touch the moon Judith Ellen Sanders Judith Ellen Sanders is a writer and painter with a master's degree in science…
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…
Nature Ocean 3 Mar 202525 Feb 2025 Joshua Kepfer Joshua Kepfer lives in northern California where he enjoys exploring the wilderness of the mountains and ocean with his wife and daughter. He has work published in Stories…
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…
Nature Down River 1 Mar 202525 Feb 2025 We all start heading down river,past the two boulders and through the chute,casting our lines to the deepest poolsand dragging them out across the gravellike cruising crustacea in flight from…
WATER The Creek 28 Feb 202511 Feb 2025 Let the cello tell of the creek—midnight-black,even at noon, the arch of long grass, the velvetof cattails around water’s edge—water-hometo eels and crabs, glossy as a dark, dark sauce.Let the…
Nature RAINWATER SONG/ RAIN AND BIRDS / WATER SONG 27 Feb 202525 Feb 2025 Coolness seeps into the morning.We have had rain.Sensations of being cleansedenliven the treesbright green with light.Bird song splashes the air.Where had the birds hid in the rain?This is a quandary…
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…
Nature Forever Pond 25 Feb 202524 Feb 2025 Gonna jump into the pond in my gardendown towards forever.I see it crystal clear shimmeringlike the very air on a winter’s day.Love hearts stuck onto fragile fleshmark my passage but…
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,…
Nature Allegheny River Rising 23 Feb 202524 Feb 2025 Each morningthe view promises something,and I always hope for a bald eagle,or red-tailed hawk,or even a skein of geese floating by purposefully.But today, it is simply fog—a beautiful, misty blanket…
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…
Nature Why Try to Put Words to It 21 Feb 202524 Feb 2025 Because the door of words is thick and worn.Each groove is smoothwith touch and weather.Two cross-bars hold the walnutplanks together, and a push-latch springsit loose with the clook of wood…
WATER Ducks 20 Feb 202519 Jan 2025 They follow a swirl alongan eddy of the muddy river;Gentle intimacy on dark currents.Befriending me, I am carriedand charmed by their decency.The pines behind the librarywere mauled today.Sliced and piled…
Nature Monsoon 19 Feb 202517 Feb 2025 To experience monsoon fullydemands a metal roof.Rain pelts downno longer a liquid but a solid.A steady roar obliterates.Universe contracts tocasita—tempest—and me.The Mustang Mountains are gone,the Huachucas. I standmarooned by a…
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,…
Nature Operculum 17 Feb 202517 Feb 2025 I have cloaked myself in spirals,gathering grains of sand.The deeper hues burn internally,leaving the exteriorto bleach and stain with each turn. In collusion with the currentsI yield, I peel.With each…
Nature trek 16 Feb 20254 Jan 2025 Hugh Findlay Hugh Findlay’s writing and photography have been published worldwide. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2020 for poetry, and the Best Microfiction Anthology 2024, he is in the…
Nature Walking in a Storm 15 Feb 202515 Feb 2025 When’s the last timeyou walked in a storm;let the rain soak you;clothes clinging like asecond skin; let thewind do what it will toyour finely coiffed hair,so that you return hometotally…
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…
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