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Attending To It

February 20, 2025 by Logan James Garner 1 Comment

The full moon has rolled west
out of view, its light
reduced to a trickle
through the black frame.
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Filed Under: Featured Writing, Poetry

Slip Slidin’ Away

January 22, 2025 by Steven Mayer 2 Comments

Still humming, smiling, finally knowing where I am.
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Runny Birds

January 1, 2025 by Logan James Garner 4 Comments

Sanderlings are pitching like rafts
ignoring the line of surf-sorted shells
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Here Try Some of This Ointment

April 17, 2024 by Watt Childress 4 Comments

Imagine life where everyone pitches in with a mix of chores and creative leisure. One barely sees this balance from today’s towers of ranking prey.
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Filed Under: Culture, Featured Writing, Poetry, Spirit, ULE Tagged With: Al-Eizariya, Appalachia, Bethany, Falafel, Isabel Wilkerson, Israel, Jesus, Knoxville, Mary, Nard, Origin, Palestine, Solomon, Spikenard

READ ALL ABOUT IT! 1999

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

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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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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More Gleanings

Here Try Some of This Ointment

April 17, 2024 By Watt Childress 4 Comments

We are the Luminaries

August 8, 2023 By Watt Childress 2 Comments

Open Letter for Creation’s Caregivers

June 19, 2023 By Watt Childress 5 Comments

My November 2022 Ballot Choices

November 6, 2022 By Rabbi Bob 1 Comment

One Cup of Tea

November 15, 2020 By Lila Danielle 1 Comment

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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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