Jazz Birds
byAt the Salem Jazz & Soul Festival cormorants were sunning on a rowboat just offshore, wings outstretched, at least seven repetitions of the signal…
Reasonably
by the daily asteriskPoliticians need citizens who will permit them to behave reasonably. We must see in time that public opinion does enable rational leaders to moderate…
East Fork, Whitewater River
by Aaron NellThe water here flows smooth and quickly, half of the river’s drop happening in this county alone. Past Test Road, at the bend where…
Stimulate fear
by the daily asteriskThere are always real dangers in the world, sufficient to their day. Fearfulness obscures the distinction between real threat on the one hand and…
Wapinepay Heron
by Travis PolingThe blue heron leaps up like two reeds rising, legs long stalks in the riverbank, plucked out by their shallow, drenched roots. On wide…
The human and humanizing
by the daily asteriskIf what we seek is the human and humanizing potential in politics, we may find it more quickly if, instead of setting out to…
Loving the River
by Eileen R. KinchIt’s part of you, carves out your western border Sometimes mist settles so thick you barely see Peach Bottom’s power plant or the serene…
The problem is us
by the daily asteriskGod made very clear what we need to do. And we are the ones that haven’t followed those rules. We always complain and get…
Mountain Fork
by Kierstan BarbreNo spoken word here Soaring blue heron settle In slate-rocked waters
Coming this week: “Water and wings” poems
by Kirstin Vander Giessen-ReitsmaThis week, in between our issues on bodies and transportation, we’ll be publishing the fruits of our first guest editor collaboration with Aaron Nell….