Hoar Frost   Sometimes, conditions create gems out of fog and chill and darkness.   What seemed an endless, […]

  Sanguine   The moose walks into the blowing snow, unhurried. Such a steadfast pace, this sanguine peace within the […]

  Definitions   Apoptosis: the highly regulated enzymatic process of intentional cellular death.   Why death? What if the intention […]

  Sum   Stillness holds motion. Don’t believe us? Look closer. Lichen look still, even simple,   but our universe […]

  Unadorned   The owl blinked over yellow eye moons, then dismissed the screaming, diving jays with one hiss each. […]

  Moonlit   Sometimes things align.   Yes, I’ll wait while you knock on wood and give me that look […]

Suturing A shrew moves in moonlight,tracking across the broken snow. You have felt this small, a lone heart pounding in […]

  Migration As you grasped the bony curve, lifting it from the riverbank into the shifting, slanting light, it became […]

  Ally   The day you ran from the moose, lurching off the trail to crouch behind trees,   everything […]

Signature   We’ve seen them too, the striations. Those lines in the rocks, glacial grooves cut mostly parallel like cambium, […]