Two poems by Kelli Russell Agodon celebrate the small details in the natural world that manage to glimmer in spite of climate change, wildfires, and anxiety about the future.
Tag: nature poetry
Sea Star and Ode to a Crow
Two poems by Vancouver's Fiona Tinwei Lam explore human interactions with nature in Cascadia: observations on the endangered sunflower sea stars of the West Coast, and an ode to Canuck, Vancouver's most famous crow.
Falcon Watching & Elk: two poems
Two poems of human-wildlife interactions in the San Juan Islands by Samuel Green, a former Washington state poet laureate.
The Abyssopelagic
Spokane poet Ellen Welcker explores the simple joys of being a parent:
"when you’re blue at the ocean it swallows you
you enter each other you merge
you become something old
barnacled
soft"