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December 19, 2023 by Cliff Taylor 2 Comments

I’m a Bruce Lee of Christmas book-wrapping
just slaying everything I’m handed.
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Filed Under: Featured Writing, Poetry

A Memorable Christmas

December 15, 2023 by Steven Mayer 3 Comments

As evening approaches, the wind is exceptionally harsh as we walk the two country miles to the village. The stars are so distant, and my hands are cold. [Read More]

Filed Under: Featured Writing

Exchanging gifts with Ursula

December 5, 2023 by Watt Childress 3 Comments

Le Guin’s writing has inspired me to question authority ever since my classmates and I read her work in school. [Read More]

Filed Under: Art, Books, Culture, Featured Writing Tagged With: Barb Knop, Brandon Ogilvie, Bruce St. Denis, Cannon Beach, Gary Hayes, Lisa Kerr, Nancy McCarthy, Ursula K. Le Guin

Watershed Folk

November 27, 2023 by Watt Childress Leave a Comment

Awareness of our common bond grows in these little events. Each gathering brings us a baby step closer to knowing how sacred this place is. [Read More]

Filed Under: Culture, Featured Writing, Spirit Tagged With: Cannon Beach, Ecola Creek, Salmon

Local citizens could rejuvenate democracy

November 6, 2023 by Watt Childress Leave a Comment

Apparently some leaders need a refresher lesson on consent. A comparison between civic governance and interpersonal relations is appropriate. When someone expresses a desire for friendship, starts giving hugs, this does not mean it’s OK to pursue sex with them. Even if romance does unfold, pay attention if the person says no at any point.
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Filed Under: Featured Writing, Politics Tagged With: Cannon Beach, Oregon

Charging up our Song

November 3, 2023 by Watt Childress 3 Comments

Spirit cracked open
my mumblypeg mind with
heart-to-heart conversation.
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Filed Under: Featured Writing, Poetry, Spirit

The Last of Us to Look Back

October 28, 2023 by Cliff Taylor 2 Comments

You pull hard enough and you can break
a connection a lot of times.
How many hundreds of miles were we marched
down our Trail of Tears before some of
those connections to our corn snapped?
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Filed Under: Culture, Featured Writing, Food, Plant Medicine, Poetry, Spirit Tagged With: Chief Standing Bear, Ponca, Trail of Tears

Mornings Like These

October 2, 2023 by Aaron Bowers 3 Comments

blue autumnal frosts lace the arbors like a silhouette
frozen brambles litter the forest floor
stillness roams out from under the canopy
what was hidden gives way to a season of knowing
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Filed Under: Featured Writing, Poetry

Holding Hands in Cannon Beach

August 28, 2023 by Watt Childress 4 Comments

Can coastal ghosts take
control of boards that
meet on ancestral strands?
Possession risks captivity.
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Filed Under: Featured Writing, Poetry

Three Poems and a Mountain

August 26, 2023 by Logan James Garner 4 Comments

Here, in a nook of the trembling landscape
where hills push up and back, away from
the crying ocean whose breath is wind,
She looks to her older Rocky cousins.
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Filed Under: Featured Writing, Poetry

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Readers’ Comments

  • Watt Childress April 28, 2025 at 11:48 am on Uncle Zech’s Amphibious GestaltAlso, you inspired me to insert a sentence crediting Hoyt Axton with the song's genesis. Many thanks!
  • Watt Childress April 27, 2025 at 10:55 pm on Uncle Zech’s Amphibious GestaltThank you kindly Jim for reading this and commenting. I enjoyed your review of "Sun House" by David James Duncan,
  • Jim Stewart April 27, 2025 at 8:26 pm on Uncle Zech’s Amphibious GestaltNice! Hoyt Axton wrote the Jeremiah song and sang it with great gusto. Life wanders on and I'm still glad
  • Watt Childress April 26, 2025 at 3:51 pm on Uncle Zech’s Amphibious GestaltDuring spring I think of you, and all the May Pole celebrations you've organized over the years. So grateful for
  • Watt Childress April 26, 2025 at 3:18 pm on Uncle Zech’s Amphibious GestaltIn my dreams I sing to the multitudes, with a voice as clear and sweet and churchy as Lou Reed.
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