In a world of rising seas, how to stay afloat? Buoyancy Against such weight I try to be a force which uplifts a drowning child wait a...

Slate grey wash of cloud pulls down the curtain of night leaving saffron threads to hem the water's edge-while I am left unraveling. The...

Bobolink--grassland insectivore creature of my heart. The painted breeding male, beauty of early summer's greening hay fields--with its...

Ecstasy of vetch stains the roadside purple while evening primrose shines. In moonlight I hear the silent tangle of green and vine call...

BIPOC protests of late, if they have taught the dominant white, ruling culture anything, should have taught us that everyday our...

Prelude: (May 30th, 2020-- my avid birder son, Lucas and I are up and on the road early--heading to the (eastern north) shore to meet my...

What sort of impossibility brings you to awareness of one moment, sudden or not? I wonder that at times. We said we must document this...

A Tanka for a soft air night. Wind dances shadows of Maple leaves on my wall. Outside the air, soft, surprises with its light touch....

What is it when gratitude fails you and those elements of human experience which endeared you to humans makes scarce? What is this long...

To whom it may concern, I am an Islander and I am deeply in love with this place I call home. That deep love is rooted in the...

What if in this time of forced quieting, When the motions of the human world have slowed in many quarters, Slowed enough to feel the...

The original piece of writing which shaped the August 2011 manifestation of The Creativity Project still *feels relevant today. Perhaps...

When I was eight years old my grade three teacher, Mrs. MacKinnon did a unit on poetry. As part of it she had us all write poems to...

One of my dear sisters is an extraordinary elementary school teacher (and general human). She, like the rest of us, was wrested out of...

Margaret Wise Brown was a children's author of much acclaim in the early to mid twentieth century. Best know for her beloved children's...

The poems I am featuring for today are each weather related poems which my mother so beautifully recited to my siblings and I in our...

The origami butterflies I made a few weeks back are starting to fall off my dining room window. The rainbow I made with them cheers me so...