If I were a plant, I might arrive at silence and stillness a little more gracefully. I might meditate with greater success. If I were a plant, I think you would find that – impossible as it seems – I am both an annual and a perennial. Both evergreen and deciduous, succulent and garden flower,Continue reading “Plants and Animals”
Tag Archives: ecopoetry
How To Carry Soup
“Time now to gather the wild grain of yourself, kindle the spark of yourself…”
Swimming
Forgive me for being so plain, but all things aside – including the alchemy of eternity being the steady stream of each moment pouring into the next – my purpose for being here today is to plunge into the water, as far as I can tell. This lake, viewed from the sky, takes the shapeContinue reading “Swimming”
What I Observed Last Wednesday
Evergreen trees take a solemn stance, seem to long for rain in their crooked row, seem to pity the quivering cottonwood leaves, and decline to change for the coming snow.
C.M. Rivers 