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…
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,…
You must be logged in to post a comment.