Poetry

  • An Echo

    I offered my reflectiona simple kiss, it ripplesin return like blossomsfloating in the summer breeze, whispering fall.

  • Untitled

    Where you go, you go nowhere.But the question dies with the outer shineThe summer ended, but not in my soulI yearn for spring, but it’s…

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  • 50 Shades of Spring

    Such an ecstasySpring is puffing and swelling on its rideLike a new bride, it tides melancholy from all the sidesPiling growth upon growth like wavesSpring…

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  • Garbage

    Ah! love, let us be trueTo one another! for this garbage, which seemsTo go like an end of a diseaseSo large, so filthy, so toxicHas…

  • Your Plan?

    (After Ryszard Krynicki) You won’t feel the rise in temperatureYou won’t have to think about the extinct animalsYou won’t ponder over the plastic and its…

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  • Stratigraphy

    This poem is formatted in a shape resembling a rock formation. It is intended to be read first as in standard English, left to right,…

Articles and Prose

  • 50 Shades of Spring

    Such an ecstasySpring is puffing and swelling on its rideLike a new bride, it tides melancholy from all the sidesPiling growth upon growth like wavesSpring…

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  • Garbage

    Ah! love, let us be trueTo one another! for this garbage, which seemsTo go like an end of a diseaseSo large, so filthy, so toxicHas…

  • Your Plan?

    (After Ryszard Krynicki) You won’t feel the rise in temperatureYou won’t have to think about the extinct animalsYou won’t ponder over the plastic and its…

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  • R.I.P. Brickmover

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  • This Drop

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  • Wonders in the Shadows of the Costa Rican Rainforest

    At the end of 2024, I was on a surf trip in Costa Rica. Seeking peace and quiet from the hustle and bustle of the…

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  • The Reason the U.S. No Longer Exists

    by T. G. Metcalf The teacher, a woman in her early forties, was seated at a table in her study. The students were scattered within…

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  • A Suite of Sprawling Cattails Occupy a Suburban Woodland’s Edge

    Spaces between the built and natural environment host transient goers. Herbaceous materials gently waver, offering fluffed seedy packets.Delicious debris diffuses along the paved-unpaved zone.Woodland soundscapes rapidly…

  • Feeding Dynamics Across the Land-Sea Interface

    by Josh Kesling Autumnal wrack lines linearly diffuse across beachscapes, demarcating the relationships between land and sea. Peppered with copper browns and aged maroons, not…

  • Stratigraphy

    This poem is formatted in a shape resembling a rock formation. It is intended to be read first as in standard English, left to right,…

  • At the Window

    I pray to the Invisible: Please protect usfrom blizzard and hail, from blaze and swelter,from flying insects that sting and swarm,from pestilence and sulfurous miasma,and…

  • Any Time Spent

    Any time spentNot making babies.Or not making money. Any time spentNot tilling the soil.Or not dancing the floor. Any time spentNot watching the sunset.Or watching…