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  Fall   Just now, under the aspen tree, you saw a spark or a sunlit flash of wing  and […]

Illusion What stump?said the bunchberry, as it shrugged crimson-stained leavesfreed, just recently, from summer’s green mask and I pointed, bemused, […]

Exchange The squirrel froze, quivering and then dashed up a tree to chitter,loudly as I knelt by its meal, or […]

Resident The porcupine’s tail tends to each track like a fistful of twigssweeping the gravel into a braided shape. It […]

  Glacier   Lacy shards chime as they meet  in ice berg waves newly launched in clouds  of blue white […]

  Humpback   As the blown spray fades above its dorsal fin a humpback slips back beneath the surface   […]

  Stillness   It was just  as you’d imagined it.    Kittywakes, murres, even puffins swam  through the air with […]

Sea Star The sea star clings to the sharp rock walls in salted purpleas if a sweat-stained cape draped its […]

Cottongrass When the fifth season comes, dressed in flames and smoke,the cottongrass bloomwaving wild heads like umbrellas. Have you seen […]

  Contribution   To change the world, she says,   become  the mouse.   Let go of the sky and […]