Nature… Timing 7 Jul 201928 May 2019 Frigid inhalations taper Winter’s sugar frost fades Damp brittle garden limbs Jobless stalks retire Prickly framework of coneflowers, phlox and Russian sage Light’s shifting angles Sun blades fold in…
Nature… Serenity 4 Jul 201928 May 2019 Photograph by Stephanie Jackson Stephanie Jackson is a mother of three. She writes for many audiences and enjoys landscape photography in her spare moments. https://semisweetnothings.wixsite.com/writing
Nature… Planting Grass 2 Jul 201928 May 2019 He spread the seeds across the soil with care, the way the rain sets moisture down just where it needs to be. He worked in quietness and solitude. He sent…
Nature… Driftwood; 1965 30 Jun 201928 May 2019 ‘According to Norse mythology, the first humans, Ask and Embla, were formed out of two pieces of driftwood, an ash and an elm, by the God Odin and his brothers,…
Nature… A Sonnet for the Birds 28 Jun 201928 May 2019 Anhingas and ravens crow for the emus, which parrot the moas and the kiwis of the Albatross Isles en paradisum’s view, where the petrels join the kites lofting freely …
Nature… Basking in the Sun, Heron Landing, Juvenile Eagle 25 Jun 201928 May 2019 Photographs by Cynthia Connolly I am Cynthia Connolly, a hobbyist photographer who recently discovered a love of birds and wildlife refuges. Luckily I live 10 minutes away from Nisqually…
Nature… Toward an Arctic Circle 23 Jun 201923 Jun 2019 There are lines we cross borders we step past where flesh and bone meet cranberries and club moss outside the truth I like to call our lower forty-eight. We paddle…
Nature… just passing through 18 Jun 20195 Aug 2019 walking this old timber among the grandsons of great oaks and hickory deep in creek and river bottoms or high on glacier formed bluffs I am struck by the fact…
Nature… An Ode to Our Evening Walks 17 Jun 20197 May 2019 Each day, we’re granted some reprieve, When, yapping brash, you beg to leave. We go. You’re always out in front. You track what’s left behind: a hunt For spots you…
Nature… Moon Meeting 15 Jun 20197 May 2019 I have late night Conversations with the moon. She asks me about The sun and I Ask her about the pockmarks Dotting her skin. I tell her that I know…