According to Yellow Bird

May 22, 2024

The prince planted the woman in red amidst the spring sorghum. That year the sun struck the moon down to Earth and stalks grew as high as the baobabs. The woman seemed to disappear in her cage of grass and the prince told her to whistle so he could find her. But she...

Your Place in the Universe

May 8, 2024

You think it’s an ordinary day, although warm for early morning in the desert sun. You decide to nap in the shade of a Palo Verde tree, but your mind is heavy with remembrances and regret, so many days wasted in self-absorption while affections went neglected, the...

Those trees,

May 7, 2024

they flutter when they sense  the weight of my work boots  as if I intuit        their every want —   fertilizer for their roots    neem oil for their leaves   water for their soil   stakes for their fledgling growth as if...

Power of Poetry

Apr 20, 2024

We know freedom through the emotions and actions it ignites in us: joy, exhilaration, confidence, self-expression, playfulness. Yet, we cannot truly know freedom without some sense of belonging, which also ignites these same emotions and actions. Discourses that pit...

Where did I come from?

Dec 7, 2023

I came from a Monarch’s chrysalis too soon, still a gooey mess So, I hitched a ride on Road Runner’s back who took me atop an Enchanted Rock where hot stones baked me to wholeness “The Earth,” I said, “I come from you” but the skies grew dark and lightning struck me...

Alaotra grebe, last sighting 1985

Jun 7, 2023

i am the last feather lost to the marsh. i sway to the song of wind in high grasses, the only one left to hear its muted dirge. why should i remember what is destined to be forgotten — how in late morning      when the air began to feel sticky...

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