Two days after the big rain,I walked to the mailbox.I spied a small, very dry,lost toad in the middle ofthe road. Early enough for dewto still speckle tall grassalong the ditch, I nabbedher and walked her back.Opening my palm, mid-stoop,she leapt and landed in wet. One less sufferingcreature in the world. A saved toad as…
Author: Lisa or Li
mother, grandmother, gardener, observer of nature, reader, writer, learner, bicyclist, woman who runs with the wolves, lover of music, philosophical daoist. Welcome.
Doodads fmg
We met up at fmg on Tuesday, as we have all summer. We headed back to the recreation of the farm from Lena’s childhood and planned on taking a back route over to the Japanese Garden, but there was work going on in that area, so it was gated off. Instead we took a boardwalk…
dVerse — OLN 369 — She Hides
She HidesShe hides her shapefrom patriarchal pawing,donning ill-fitting mumusin off-putting shades,passively cultivating uglyhairstyles through neglect.But I see her curves through shadows against lightand flimsy cotton;in her soft smileswhen she thinks no one is watching, in her gentle touch of stem as she bendsto smell the rose.I want to reach out,to tell her she is beautiful,that…
POPO2024 Day 12
I’m going to havean indoor plant sale.Since 2011, the atriumand attached mini-greenhouse have guar-anteed that no house-plant will ever die.Not only that, each sproutand leaf has multipliedinto a Michigan jungleof jade, succulents,spider plants, ferns — plus grapefruit and avocado trees! They thrive in ourcare, but fly they must,fledged from their home.
#FF — Polly Needa
PHOTO PROMPT © David Stewart Polly Needa “&&^%^*&^*^*^!!!!!!,” Polly screeches. Startled awake, one eye creaks open to see five on the clock. “It’s OK, girl,” I tell her. It’s moving day. The van will arrive at two. Everything’s in neatly stacked boxes in the middle of the apartment except bedding, fresh clothes, toiletries — and…
POPO2024 Day 11
I’mwriting you this tear-shapedpoem to show that I’m crying about the oldEnbridge oil pipeline 5 that runs under The Straits of Mackinac, that pumps black death through fresh water, sepa-rated from catastrophe by grace. Enbridge’s take?Build a harbinger on bottom of lake.
Turtle Talk Guest Writer Katie Mimini. Katie Mimini is a JD/MPP student at Columbia Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School.
Katie talks about National Native American Law Students Association and why it is important.
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