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Category Archives: Nature

What love could learn from fungus if it would only listen

June 8, 2017

I wish you could spread in that restless, vindictive, ambling way — to not be held back, to spew spores …

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Late Sunday prayertime

April 6, 2017

How the rain pours down with heavy boots on our roof. We hover close to our papers someways happier for …

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March 2017

March 30, 2017

Slowly, slowly life comes back. Hair-fine roots far below the surface muster a wiggle, a stretch, and stir for us …

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Even so

March 4, 2017

Even as you sit smoking weed in the room I just cleaned and leave your papers and dirty dishes on …

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Early morning on Lake Shore Drive

February 25, 2017

maze of brown at the center, trees empty of leaves, row after row stretching to scattered hazel edging the lake, …

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The heart needs good work

January 26, 2017

All that comes to me now is the prairie, how it is empty to the casual eye, how you walk …

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Worth staying for

December 3, 2016

Dusts of snow edge the earth, uneven lines mark sun-warmed pavers. With under-parts protected, statuary gather new relief, dying grasses …

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11/20

November 20, 2016

Earth grieves each November, again finds itself wailing in sorrow, refusing to get out of bed. For its own tears …

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So cold the sky

October 25, 2016

waves roll in, tossed over themselves by November winds that scrape surface up and over, up and over, coil under …

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From Hafiz

October 22, 2016

Everyday they fall. The leaves tumble down through branches, tossed by rolling breeze, find their way to mother earth, shaken …

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