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Katherine E. Winnick
24 January 2024As a child living in Sudan, I was fortunate enough to meet a tribe of whirling dervishes. The impression they made on me has been long lasting.
sun worshippers
spinning to the ends
of the earth -
Rick Hurst
30 January 2017leaving the trees early april sun
The spring wind is blowing warm. Just above the trees a swift flying crow heads stright for the lake. A sudden cross wind gusts and knocks the crow sideways, nearly flipping it over. It lets out a startled caw but quickly recovers and continues on. -
Ignatius Fay
9 August 2016magnitudes
what does the mite
living
on the flea’s leg
know of the dog -
Nicole Pakan
23 February 2010these types of women
try to make you think they are the same as all the others but the main difference is that they go to bed with their makeup on and never dry their eyes.they keep guns in the linen closet and wonder why everything is the color of mercury. she will get into your head with those loose curls and a two-foot crowbar, and the mascara lines on the pillow are the webs children make with red yarn. like clapping games and rhymes and secret handshakes. she is part of something like that, except bigger.
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Allison Millcock
18 September 2009My friend and I explore the playground at the end of my street. The old equipment has suddenly become punctuated by strange bright contraptions. We take turns to climb inside a mounted tractor tyre while the other spins it around. Then swing in and out on a large, rotating kite. But we still end up on old favorites. We scramble over monkey bars, turn dizzy on the merry-go-round and scream down the highest slide…
white cockatoos
crown the pine trees….
summer nutsParking my car years later in front of the old playground.
I stare out across an ocean of neatly mown grass with one small island of equipment.broken nest
the peanut package warns
it might contain nuts -
Linda Papanicolaou
6 September 2009Industries and land usages come and go, as structures, asphalt and whatever plantings survive the natural climate subside back into the marshes—with or without the millions we spend to restore what we’ve despoiled…
pickleweed
the salt marsh harvest mouse
about his business -
Linda Papanicolaou
5 September 2009Once your astonishment abates, this Roman temple in the California landscape seems almost natural. In actuality, it was built in 1910 as the pumping station for an aquaduct….
dreams of empire
a flock of grackles foraging
through dry grass -
Linda Papanicolaou
4 September 2009A big flood covered the world, drowning everyone except coyote, who only survived by scrambling onto the top of Mt. Diabolo. Eagle and hummingbird soon joined him……
golden gate
the beacon flashing out
on Alcatraz -
Linda Papanicolaou
2 August 2009Buy a cookie save the rainforest. There’s a bake sale in the quad—I grab my change and go out to support the cause, but the table is surrounded by a noisy bunch of students and the chocolate chips are gone….
recycling
the toucan on a box
of Froot loops—
a science teacher asks me if
I’ve read the fine print
