May 1, 2015
stones
there’s plain stone—round flat rough or smooth—there’s the stone in the brook seen through its refractive slant —reach for it—find it settled into place—to the side embedded frozen to […]
May 1, 2015
Pastoral
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 […]
May 1, 2015
Vocation
the green memory presses its face against the safety glass it murmurs —Talitha cumi in the dioramabodies rest in rotation a little milk can’t paraphrase I offer my bread to […]
May 1, 2015
blind rose
my friend reminds me that every rose is “blind,” they have no ocular faculty as such among the snows of the mind’s planet-semblance I draw a braille’s clear water in […]
May 1, 2015
Fox-Breath (para-chantry)
It would be rank. It would be mute, & then immutable. You would not be able to hide inside it. No language but misprision, the concept of. The squalor of […]
May 1, 2015
Trophic Cascade
After the reintroduction of gray wolves to Yellowstone and, as anticipated, their culling of deer, trees grew beyond the deer stunt of the midcentury. In their up reach songbirds nested, who […]
May 1, 2015
Pastoral
A stubborn roan lows in minor key in memory of hunger carried through winter petitions to the honorable pines the great brood suffers awful […]
May 1, 2015
Nature’s Nature: A Gathering of Poetry Introduction
I am pleased to offer this gathering of new poems to our readers, as I have been pleased to read the work of so many poets in assembling this feature […]
May 1, 2015
Dive-bomb
Swarming from ocean-green shadow, iridescent turquoise dragonflies gilded copper-silver —devil’s darning needles— sewing together toes and fingers as we sleep, our eyes shuttered ”wool-white as sea foam”: boat people from […]
May 1, 2015
Noctilucent
Not only the roads. Not only the streamwater, raw against my face and hands. Not the painstaking ground faith that has kept me here, the nerves and reeds rooting down […]
May 1, 2015
The Spoils
Spoils is skin. Is skin. Skin stripped from the orange, the bullock, the whitetail, the trout. Skin of a livable atmosphere stripped from the bare bone and muscle of the […]
May 1, 2015
Inspiration Point, Berkeley
Consider Kissinger: the honorary Globetrotter of Harlem who spins on fingertip the world as balloon, the buffoon erected and be-plaqued here by the Rotary Club as evergreen and in this […]