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Wildlife
Poetry
Kiss
When Lynne saw the lizard floating / in her mother-in-law’s swimming pool, / she jumped in.
June 2019Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
Mirage
Someone has died. Someone I loved the way I love my own hands. And I am alive in the bright, fading day, flying above the earth and sea.
May 2019
Fiction
You Are Our Witness
Everyone believes the world’s governments worked together to release the sterilization virus called only Z. Isn’t it likely the government sterilized the seeds as well? Who wants this disaster to drag out for decades?
April 2019Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
Ways To Take Your Coffee
With snow falling on blue spruce and a cardinal at the feeder and the fireplace’s crackly warmth easing into your bones and the final pages of a book about bears and the opening pages of a book about monks and no plans for the morning, the afternoon, the evening, tomorrow, next week, the rest of your life.
March 2019Quotations
Sunbeams
February 2019Natural law is the highest law, and it would be folly to figure that you can outwit natural law.
Poetry
Nature Is Strong
Put a bald truck tire in the top of a cypress tree in Florida / and soon an osprey will arrive to build its roost / of sharp dry twigs and torn-up winter grass.
February 2019Fiction
What Will You Save Today?
“What are you going to do with it?” Nan whispers. “Do with what?” asks the boy who stole the vial. “I saw you,” Nan says. “I’m going to swallow it,” he says. His eyes are wide and a little disturbing. “Why?” Nan asks. “I want a horse inside of me,” he says.
February 2019
Poetry
Selected Poems
— from “Falling From The Sky” | When we found out our daughter had gone deaf, / I did not question God’s fairness
October 2018Quotations
Sunbeams
July 2018She loved the serene brutality of the ocean, loved the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.
The Sun Interview
Sunken Treasures
Sylvia Earle On Why We Need To Protect The Oceans
We have measured a sharp decrease in oxygen in the ocean over the last fifty years. If the ocean has less oxygen, then less is going into the atmosphere as well. I don’t want to mess around with my oxygen-generating system. Ask any astronaut how important your oxygen-generating system is. Shouldn’t this be the highest priority of every man, woman, and child — to be able to breathe?
July 2018
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