by David Sparenberg, author of Life in the Age of Extinctions
i am standing now
i am standing in this place:
i am standing at ocean shore
i am talking with water
with sand and water
(in mist
of betwixt and between)
i give myself to you
may my presence
be healing energy
do not abandon
the children of humanity
by Madison Woods
This poem was previously published in Madison’s blog.
Madison Woods writes, creates, and communes with nature from the Ozark Mountains of northwest Arkansas. She and her husband founded Wild Ozark, LLC with a desire to align their passions with their livelihoods. Madison offers readers an opportunity to reconnect to nature through her blog, photography, stories and books.
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Here are the words of the poem, in text:
by Chitola Utsanami
The wind entered through the sills and our nostrils
Plundering our hearth.
You could see it earlier that morning
Raising an army of snow into drifts and then walls.
The fox and the deer felt this army before.
One went into a deep musky den, the other made a shallow bed under a
shield of fir, fur and fear.
No creature was safe. No one was immune to its progress.
Even a low bearing vole would not dare bore holes in such a snow. Continue Reading →
