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…
Nature There is a River 27 Mar 202519 Mar 2025 There is a riverbut I’m drowning on the shorestubborn stains of dumb mistakesdiffidence and inner war The rain can’t wash me‘cause I’m dirty to the coreso Grace and Mercy please…
Water HAZEL IN THE RAIN 26 Mar 202516 Feb 2025 On her father's shouldersHazel is the first to feel the rain.Small drops on her hairand flailing hands. "It's spurting,no, squirting," she says, lispinga little through her baby teeth.She will, of…
Nature A Bowl of Water 25 Mar 202519 Mar 2025 (14 lines) Easing himself between the shadows, he’s littlemore than a shadow himself, a small strange beingprancing on his goat legs. It would be simpler todismiss him as a momentary…
Water Oxymoron 24 Mar 202516 Feb 2025 A desert wetland is acontradiction in terms.Is it just a mirage – or do oasesreally exist in the desert?Ephemeral is the survival mode,like an illusion here and gone.In arid places…
Nature Driftwood 23 Mar 202519 Mar 2025 i carry the pain that i causedtossed and tornlike shipwrecked woodtangled between the waves i caused the pain that i carrydrifting away from mewith every step i taketowards joy i…
Water AFTER THE FLOOD 22 Mar 202516 Feb 2025 There was a small hollowin the far corner of the yard.In this year, when rainimagines itself Biblicaland the sky has split openlike a gourd of tears,it is overfilled with rain.Two…
Nature RAIMENT 21 Mar 202519 Mar 2025 If I could wear water, it wouldcascade like flowing white satinspill over my head, sprinklemy face, skim over my shoulderspurl round my breasts, swooshdown my arms, riffle my bellycaress my…
Water Salamander Rain 20 Mar 202516 Feb 2025 Catskill March meltsWipes the slate clean of winter’s tracesHoofprints of foraging deerMazes of mouse tunnelsDematerialize to soggy grass and leaves.Snow, Ice - it all runs down the mountain.Rivulets follow old…
Nature IT’S GOING TO BE A WET YEAR 19 Mar 2025 Angry that I stepped across the culvert.So much sun this year little boys never learnto walk in the rain in yellow raincoats.Arroyos full of wishes and troubles.I'd forgotten what it…
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