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Elk

June 12, 2014 by T H Savaht Leave a Comment

Elk
if i could smell what you smell
be led by scent
down capricious highways
intrepid
forlorn
ALIVE

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Filed Under: Featured Images, Poetry, ULE

10 часов — Ten Hours

June 6, 2014 by Aina Tonjes 4 Comments

It takes ten hours to get desperately lost in Olshanka woods, and find yourself again.

Lose your grandmother where the chanterelle inlaid trail weaves among blueberry fields.
Let the marsh have your boot.
Sob, wail, whimper. Say farewell to your life of 14 years.

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Filed Under: Poetry, ULE Tagged With: childbirth, womanhood

Correspondence

May 27, 2014 by Eric Conley 2 Comments

This is a strange time, is it not my Queen? With the valley shrouded in pooling fog, the days have darkened and the Elk have been proving themselves increasingly difficult to be tallied. Their hooves have forked in three directions: where the Root drinks from the Vein, where the Tongue burrows into sand, and where the Stones From Afar circle The Forest’s edge. [Read More] 

Filed Under: Art, Culture, Featured Writing, Poetry, ULE Tagged With: RoonJon StormTooth, Usnea TreeFriend, WereWitch

Driving Without Using Brakes

May 23, 2014 by Tony Farrenkopf 2 Comments

Driving without using brakes
means skill to judge speed and distance,
sniff out five cars in front of you,
oncoming traffic
and your next move,
pace your 302 Mustang’s 5 liter engine,
bridle the GT steed smooth and firm,
gear down to stay in torque,
chrome tailpipes growl in sync. [Read More]

Filed Under: Poetry, ULE Tagged With: chrome, karma, locusts

Gallery Song

May 19, 2014 by Watt Childress Leave a Comment

Look what can happen with ceramic,
wood, and sea-tumbled stones;
with pigments and sand;
with fabric, glass, metal, and sun-dried kelp.

With words, fledged
in holy conversation.

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Filed Under: Art, Poetry, Spirit, ULE Tagged With: Cannon Beach, Evelyn Georges, White Bird Gallery

Where I Live

March 27, 2014 by Rick Bonn Leave a Comment

Where I live
rivers rise
overwhelm
while rain presses
falling
calling
Be one with us
Be not dry.
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Filed Under: Nature, Poetry, ULE, Uncategorized

To Whoever Corrects Current and Previous Addresses (true prose poem)

March 16, 2014 by Eric Conley 2 Comments

I have been cursed with a curse! You see, I found the rotten corpse of a horse that presumably floated across the Pacific Ocean from Japan on the beach a few days ago. I took a picture of it’s decomposing skin and pulled 2 teeth from its decrepit mouth (which required much effort to sever the fibrous flesh rooting the teeth to mandible; I had to use a sharp drift-wood-stick to cut the sinewy strands). [Read More]

Filed Under: Poetry, ULE Tagged With: Curse, FedEx, Human Resources

Casa de la Paz

February 26, 2014 by Evie Alburas 1 Comment

Por favor, tres a poniente
Y, camino de la luz.
The whale whisperer would
Like to be taken to
Casa de la Paz.

[Read More]

Filed Under: Poetry, ULE

Art Show

February 18, 2014 by Watt Childress 1 Comment

Pick a medium, any medium.
Shuffle it with streamlined themes
and magic random thoughts.
Cut it, quick, whoever you are.

Now hide it from the pros
who’ve done every dream.

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Filed Under: Poetry, ULE Tagged With: Feller Kiln, wabi-sabi

It’s a lot of work

November 25, 2013 by T H Savaht 2 Comments

It’s a lot of work
coming Home
retreading
previous paths
turning
at some fateful moment
back
to the by ways of our
Birth [Read More]

Filed Under: Nature, Poetry, Spirit, ULE Tagged With: Cannon Beach, Ecola Creek, Salmon

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