- - What is it you feel on a walk in the woods when you know that suddenly you must stop, because the energy within you and surrounding you...

- - Nights start to cool, tomatoes like the world grow heavy. A mid-size calf looks at you and splays to his mother. She lows protectively,...

- - Killdeer, by John James Audubon from the book The Birds of America “The passage into mystery always refreshes. If, when we work, we...

- - Cow I love the trapezoid of your broad side: Blank writing tablet in the grass. Brown four-legged stool in snow. Hand rest. Slice o...

- - I thank you God for this most amazing day,  for the leaping greenly spirits of trees,  and for the blue dream of sky  and for everything...

- - Fit for the Kingdom Just when I am awestruck by diamonds     on the upstanding collars of Queen Anne’s court        e...

- - My leather clogs are soaked with dew and yesterday's rainfall through to my socks, and my backside is damp from the roughhewn rai...

- - Two years ago, in the spring, Don's cell phone rang at 4:00AM. It was the Post Office saying his chicks had arrived and to please c...