by SEACC | Jul 7, 2021 | 18 Older Poetry
The salty, glacial water of Southeast is both merciful and merciless It can gently caress you, carrying you down the channel as you bask under the sun And in the same day, it can take the lives of many through a furious storm It has taught me how to use my...
by Conor.Lendrum | Jun 24, 2021 | 18 Older Poetry
New snow; My dog gallops along, scooping it up And for once I’m not worried At what she may suffer from our pollution: Snow falls, blanketing everything anew, A white particular fog that isolates us as we walk, Limiting our world to a block or two of Juneau...
by Emily | Mar 4, 2021 | 18 Older Poetry
Author’s statement: This poem arrived on a brisk walk down to Rotary Beach in Ketchikan, last February. Walking at the edge of the water this morning In the company of wind whipped snow flurries Sweeping in, then out over the shore I stop – noticing moving...
by Emily | Mar 4, 2021 | 18 Older Poetry
Peering down, I wonder— What waits beneath the surface? Choppy and rough, or smooth and calm Quietly curious as it laps at my palm A slow descent, then I find Extraordinary life of every kind: Red corals, pink algae, green urchins galore Anemones, moon jellies,...
by Emily | Mar 4, 2021 | 18 Older Poetry
When I feel like an ermine in a hunters’ world outwitting the obstacles left in haste for me. When my tree bark flakes from one too many aphids sap-sucking my skin, and haphazard, thirsty roots stretching out from my trunk recoil; When propped up like a...
by Emily | Mar 4, 2021 | 18 Older Poetry
the ocean, as the mother; the tide her rhythm, embracing us, rocking us, sometimes shaking us. The moon as the father moving with the mother, rhythmically and lovingly
