Surfer-poet of Hawaii, Richard Pettigrew, once again swings by The Dewdrop, this time with a botanical tragedy "Drunken Flora".
Tag: nature
Lawrence Bridges – Trees of Ojai
Poet Lawrence Bridges once again shows readers of The Dewdrop how Zen simplicity and awareness can be a sacred thing.
Regina Gort-Betances – (Mother) Bear
Regina Gort-Betances' "(Mother) Bear" is a wild and mournful study of loss and grief, written on a canvas of bone, blood, and root.
Constance Clark – Why I Stop & Stare
Poet Constance Clark treats readers to springtime interconnectedness and abundance with her masterful "Why I Stop & Stare".
Jeremy Giles – Grass Field We Named Beach
Like a fistful of sand scattered across white space, poet Jeremy Giles leans into experimentalism in his poem "Grass Field We Named Beach".
Lily Tobias – Fennel
In her poem "Fennel", Michigan poet Lily Tobias awakens our senses in the quiet hush of morning, and takes us to the temple.
Roshi Joan Halifax and The Way of Haiku
A collection of haiku offered by Roshi Joan Halifax.
Wanda VanderStoop – Chemin Poulin, Qc
"Chemin Poulin, Qc" by poet Wanda VanderStoop tantalizes the senses with lush earthiness brimming with abundance and life.
Elizabeth Bishop – Little Exercise
Written when she was living in Key West in the 1930s and 40s, Bishop was inspired by the uneasy beauty of the tropical storms there.
Travis Stephens – Spring is the Time of Horses
Californian tugboat captain and poet Travis Stephens smothers readers in the cold grit of resurrection in his "Spring is the Time of Horses".