Jazz Birds
At the Salem Jazz & Soul Festival cormorants were sunning on a rowboat just offshore, wings outstretched, at least seven repetitions of the signal…
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Reasonably
Politicians need citizens who will permit them to behave reasonably. We must see in time that public opinion does enable rational leaders to moderate…
Read MoreEast Fork, Whitewater River
The water here flows smooth and quickly, half of the river’s drop happening in this county alone. Past Test Road, at the bend where…
Read MoreStimulate fear
There are always real dangers in the world, sufficient to their day. Fearfulness obscures the distinction between real threat on the one hand and…
Read MoreWapinepay Heron
The blue heron leaps up like two reeds rising, legs long stalks in the riverbank, plucked out by their shallow, drenched roots. On wide…
Read MoreThe human and humanizing
If what we seek is the human and humanizing potential in politics, we may find it more quickly if, instead of setting out to…
Read MoreLoving the River
It’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…
Read MoreThe problem is us
God made very clear what we need to do. And we are the ones that haven’t followed those rules. We always complain and get…
Read MoreMountain Fork
No spoken word here Soaring blue heron settle In slate-rocked waters
Read MoreComing this week: “Water and wings” poems
This week, in between our issues on bodies and transportation, we’ll be publishing the fruits of our first guest editor collaboration with Aaron Nell….
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