Our Bodies are Mostly Water “All forms of pollution eventually make their way to water.” —a scientist Today it was announced as the first...

Seaside If you gathered those who once claimed their love as my name each would pull you aside, rough-palmed and storm-eyed, saying press...

Paper Moon We walk the paper road between the village and the sea lit by moonlight. The oysters are busy opening and closing, blinking...

Where the City Meets the Sea All roads lead to nowhere Slim, breakable paths upon the coast. A cluster of silver by the sand....

How to Remember You Are Alive Warm water trickling on your skin like starlight and the glide of brisk lotion sharpening your legs and the...

A Lack of Stars With its head hung over the road, the street lamp sputters a blue-white light, muttering some sort of apology into the...

How to write a poem Don’t write complex sentences. They are mind-numbing. Note down things that make the room seem brighter. Add trauma,...

Solitary in Des Moines County Early spring, a copper swallows the outlines of clouds, horizontal light plunges amid boughs of splayed...

In honor of National Poetry Month, we thought we’d spotlight six different collections of poetry. Read on and pick your favorite, or...

The River emotions / black rocks of carved perception born / take shape / solidify impermanent / the river flows constantly changing...

SEAGULLS Seagulls standing in the rain in a parking lot at eight in the morning don’t know how ridiculous they look, nor would it ever...

My Tree Trunk When the boy sits on the tree’s stump at the end of the Giving Tree, I used to think it was sad because they had both lived...

How to Swim once, you knew your feet like flippers beach inviting as the heartbeat of the world now saltwater weeps from nine trillion...

The Odyssey of 7000 Plastic Ducks Big blue built burgeoning towers of clouds, hurtled hurricanes, smashed massive muscular ramparts of...

Impressionable Age Our clan's picnic lunch wrapped in Wonder Bread the ham sandwiches she spread, Granpa gifted everything to the Wintu...

energy in cartooned time, billions of years presented on microscopic slides from professors – slimy ancestor, amoeba-like, bound for...

Mighty Southern Ocean Surfers in full steam, greenish-emerald extremities, the southern beaches, wild-brumal coughing up strewn seaweed....

A Spotted Sandpiper at Little Compton I teetered myself, in my excitement to see you, on those small boulders, I think you knew this, you...

Under Where is that joy of swimming underwater, counting the bars of the grate twelve feet down? Where are the hot lungs that hold and...

COVID Holiday Infected w/COVID I toss fresh food to the monitor lizards below; they run in jagged circles below the balcony, positioning...