CORVIDAE GRATITUDE
Dear Raven,
This morning, the day after Summer Solstice
you called tok tok tok
as you flew overhead in greeting
black archival wings glossy with violet....
Please see full poem: Gwendolyn Morgan, “Corvidae Gratitude,” Written River: Journal of Eco-Poetics, Hiraeth Press, no. 10 (2016): 72.
Written River Issue…
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Ode to the Barred Owl
Who comes swooping through
our yard
over the brambles, thickets
of indigenous blackberries,
sword ferns, feral zucchini, trillium....
(poem forthcoming in Western Red Cedar)
"don't dim your joy
you might be a distant star
in someone's dark night."
--Elizabeth Cunningham
from So Ecstasy Can Find You
(Hiraeth Press, 2015, p. 47)
http://hiraethpress.com/store/books/so-ecstasy-can-find-you-by-elizabeth-cunningham/
Autumn window no. 3: Vulpes fulva, Key of Bflat
She walks along the edges of music
star-lit before the fog rises from the river
Her black paws are quarter notes
black-tipped tail, white belly diurnal
We…
We welcome the magic and holiness of Summer Solstice!
"Holiness comes wrapped in the ordinary. There are burning bushes all around you.
Every tree is full of angels. Hidden beauty is waiting in every crumb."
-- from A Tree Full of Angels, Macrina…
We welcome the arrival of Spring with Great Blue Heron fishing along Salmon Creek.
We watch the female as she weaves marsh grasses, Douglas fir needles, moss, and small twigs for her nest. Although we see herons nearly every day, we catch our breath…
Winter Solstice, we celebrate the returning of the light….
The Magic of the Season
If you are to learn something of this day
learn about magic:
how it is real…
-- Jamie K. Reaser
from Winter: Reflections by Snowlight
(Hiraeth Press, 2014)
http://hiraethpress.com/winter-reflections-by-snowlight-by-jamie-k-reaser-is-now-available/
photo by Judy A. Rose
Halloween/Samhain 31 October 2014 Celtic New Year
Sun in Scorpio. Moon in Capricorn, edgy lunar squares to Uranus and Mercury.
Cross quarter between Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice -- from now until Spring Equinox,…
"Talking with Crows" Acrylic on canvas, 2014
Summer brings the longest days of the year and much golden light and gratitude. Gratitude enkindles a grateful heart, and…