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Nature's Nature: A Gathering of Poetry

May/June 2015

Pastoral

By Brent House

My hands already bleed murmurs of heartwood                                 amber singed pulses & thornbrier sorrows as penitent whispers crawl  as babies in      the woods birdsongs ascend branches as arboreal healers & I root […]

Nature's Nature: A Gathering of Poetry

May/June 2015

Pastoral

By Brent House

A stubborn roan lows in minor key  in memory of hunger carried through       winter petitions to the honorable pines  the great brood suffers awful       […]