Milkweed Opens
-This poem reflects on milkweed pods opening in early autumn, when seeds formed through summer are released into the wind while a few remain caught among the roadside grasses. The…
-This poem reflects on the first walnuts falling in early autumn, when their sudden knocks, bruised green husks, and the work of gathering squirrels make the changing season heard as…
Read Essay →-This poem reflects on milkweed pods opening in early autumn, when seeds formed through summer are released into the wind while a few remain caught among the roadside grasses. The…
The First Turning
–-This poem reflects on barn swallows gathering before migration, pausing together above the pasture after a summer in flight as the first…
The First Turning
–-This poem reflects on pears ripening indoors as early autumn cools the garden, where fruit gathered from the tree continues to gather…
The First Turning
–-This poem reflects on a spiderweb made briefly visible by autumn dew, where the changing light reveals a delicate structure that remains…
-This poem reflects on the screen door as a seasonal threshold, where summer’s constant passage between house and garden gives way to cooler mornings, indoor warmth, and the…
-This poem reflects on windfall apples at the beginning of autumn, where harvest, loss, and the orchard’s unseen visitors share the sweetness gathered through summer. The orchard keeps…
-This poem reflects on asters blooming in the narrow strip beside a fence, where lingering summer light, the weight of a bumblebee, and a seed caught in the…
Opinion Poem
–-A reflective meditation on legacy and consequence, the poem explores how what we nurture or neglect today becomes the warmth or damage…
Opinion Poem
–-A quiet meditation on shared presence, the poem reflects on how people can gather without agreement and still create connection through proximity,…
Opinion Poem
–-A contemplative meditation on unseen preparation, the poem reflects on how quiet, forward-looking work sustains future stability without recognition or applause. The…
-A quiet meditation on shared necessity, the poem reflects on how essential resources bind us together in mutual dependence, beyond division or debate. The well sitsat the edge…
-A reflective meditation on change and perspective, the poem explores how maps and boundaries are continually redrawn as our understanding of the world evolves. The first mapwas simple.…
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