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Dreaming of a Wildflower Garden, by Ross Walsh

My mother told me to mow the lawn. I refused. I pointed out that to raze the grass, to behead...
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From Beneath the Ground, by Janie Krahulcova

What comes up from underground? The youngsters would ask when starting their long journey to the ritual grounds. Their hooved...
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Four Poems by Peter Burrows

The Wood He wanted to see the wood one last time. So, they took him back to trees dripping and...
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Three Poems by Jonathan Humble

Dandelion Sun A child’s sun finds a dream in young eyes. In blinks of dandelion eclipses, refracted light reflects on...
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Three Poems by Clint Wastling

Poison  We made our way down Horse Dale warmed by early spring sunshine saw nothing of hares, rabbits, deer, seldom...
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Three Poems by Vinny Glynn-Steed

Somewhere in the Blue Majestic. I imagine you proud out there, somewhere high on an Appalachian trail, where the boulders...
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Three Poems by Aziz Dixon

My life as an onion dry skins for compost layers of meaning rings of time faster than a tree cut...
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Magpie and Mouse, poems by Liz Quirke
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3 Poems by Liz Quirke

Boluisce I root my fingers, burying them back and down. A twist into black, acidic soil, deeper than anything man-made....
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Assessing Nature in Barna Woods
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Assessing Nature

Thomas Jefferson and his fellow Agrarian philosophers founded the new republic of America on the idea that the farmer was...
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Nicki Griffin writes about the natural world
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3 Poems by Nicki Griffin

Crossing Places  At the crossing places when the river is still and ghosts untangle themselves from the trees you can...
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