Exploring the world, one voice at a time.
From this island to that isthmus. Here, an egg. There, a fish. As quick as that. Never mind swimming upstream, breaking the surface even momentarily. None of that wild fervor. You will not have cause to travel (the need’s been excised) so loll & fatten,… Continue Reading “The Quickening of Salmon & Years”
by M.R. Baird I dwell in a house that is not mine; milk snow, lake effect, eagle overhead flies on with outstretched wings, open eyed, above the blinds, my hands grasping, the cold, trees fall, weather comes in again. This house is full of… Continue Reading “Bird House Blind”
by Kelly R. Samuels Great as in large, larger than the greedy sparrow, flick of seed, and the mourning dove. Larger than the chickadee, white-capped, chipper. We’re speaking of birds, you and I — a kind of communion. Something that binds. How you learned… Continue Reading “The Great Shearwater”