Water Marsh Morning 18 Mar 202516 Feb 2025 As the sun rises, mist hangs above the marshas though ocean climbed high in the night,as though great seas cover mighty flames,as though troubles must be drowned.Tall goldenrod and purple…
Nature Underway 17 Mar 202517 Mar 2025 My thumb is a small boatcrossing the back of Nana’s handuntil ripples of skincollide against knuckled dunes.She is so sick. Can I stretch the surfaceyoung again, reverse an ocean—our moment…
Water Momentarily 16 Mar 202516 Feb 2025 The ocean spray,the sunbathers,the girl chasingbubbles, the jellyfishwashed ashore,the fossilized sanddollar: all jostleeach other to supportthe larger vista,and I am bombardedlike a moleculeuntil the whole mattersmore than my beingalone.-Laura DideschThe…
Nature awonawilona 15 Mar 202515 Mar 2025 --‘river’ in Cherokee i long to commuteby you, theoriginal highwaykayaking to workthe only trafficosprey, kingfishereagles overlookingthis heron rookeryand fish jump-twistingscales glimmering stillin my eyes as i arriveand, when on land,treading…
Water If This Were My First Time Seeing the World 14 Mar 202516 Feb 2025 Reflected like self-portrait, I’d walkrightthrough it,forest on lake, that green goldthat only oxygenmakes, liquidand alive, and I’dsinkinto my most beautiful last,and first, momentsof being born,like the wagging tailof a fish,…
Nature Northwest Gold 13 Mar 202528 Feb 2025 The sun in a brilliant sky capsrippled waves in gold.The allure of the lake movedmy feet from rock to water. The sun continued its gildon needles of grand and graciousevergreens…
Water Drift 12 Mar 202516 Feb 2025 the cerulean shore gives way to froth and foam quartz shimmering sand to caress in surprising taupe textures in footprints leading forward to disappear in resplendent indigo mirrors the unknown…
Nature Ondine’s Laughter 11 Mar 202525 Feb 2025 After - Gaspard de la nuit - Ondine — Aloysius Bertrand / Music by Maurice Ravel Kathie Clarke Kathie-Louise Clarke is a British raised writer and artist, living in Oakland,…
Water Opening Closed Doors 10 Mar 202516 Feb 2025 An older woman like me insertsa key card into a cube.But the door to her hotel roomwill not open.Mine will.I pull back the curtains,see overcast skies.The ocean lures me.A long…
Nature Glissando 9 Mar 202525 Feb 2025 A Romanian gentleman who played pianoas we drifted down the Danube for seven days and seven nights.And every night I sat as close as could be. On occasion he sang…
Water Weather Diary 8 Mar 202516 Feb 2025 We build a bed out of snow.Chase the moonlightuntil it’s trappedin the icicles.Memorize the messagethe sun leaves for uson the wall.All the angels meltat our feet.All the worldglistens.-Julia Klatt SingerJulia…
Nature Clutching water 7 Mar 202525 Feb 2025 Small childat the shorescoops seaand wet sandas theyslip from hisgrasp, again,again.Lifting tohis lipsthe crystalsleft behind,does he tastethe promiseof time?Fleeting asa sting;his goodnightkiss onmy papercheek. Judith Zelis Judith is a lifelong…
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…
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