Tag Archives: Nature
Find the bug by Stacy Maddox
RUBBISH by Maureen Sudlow
When the cities grew bigger and bigger and the skies with smoke were red the governments blamed local business ‘rubbish’ the businesses said. See the smoke rising high from our coal fires and the way that our forests are bled so the governments blamed the people ‘rubbish’ the people said. Conservationists drew our attention to … Continue reading »
Blue Tree on the Chattahoochee by Russell Streur
Some Kind of Beneath by Kristin Roedell
Under a mountain or under a lake, drifting with bull rushes, or waiting like ore in black silence: this is some kind of beneath. I mostly know what the still small Voice says, I close eyes and doors and It speaks but now It hangs voiceless as unmapped catacombs. There is always some … Continue reading »
3 photos by Bruce Ruston
2 photos by Jeremy Nathan Marks
Naming the Dead by Kristin Roedell
Between Lake Louise and the Highway there is an envelope of green quiet . When a hawk fills the air with sound, it’s soon swallowed by a blue spoon of sky. In the distance lights draw faint tidal traffic like impossibly brief moons. Fence posts marked with names of dead dogs edge the … Continue reading »
Sounds Like a Nor’easter by Annmarie Lockhart
freezing rain throws the clatter of a broken string of beads against my window it will soften soon like a knitted scarf and mittens for frost bitten cheeks, fingers reminding me how much I love the way you share your sun shine with me Continue reading »
Open to the Sky by Anne Britting Oleson
If it were to rain: to the southwest, clouds frown in disapproval (as if it truly mattered), encroaching on the brilliance of this diamond-precious afternoon. The empty threat of distant thunder is brushed away with a hand raised into the thickening air. If it were to rain, I would still lie here, open to the … Continue reading »
