Apr 30Member-onlyThe Soul of Watera free verse poem for riparian: the banks of our love — “we noted their cries and habits tracing murmurations we drew love beyond naming” — irreplaceable, Part 1 I even steal my own lines. Harpoon them like whales when I see them coming — always looking for meat — blubber to burn success’s oil on — No — what I mean is Blubber…Poetry4 min read
Apr 28Member-onlyWhere Everything Flowsa free verse poem for riparian: the banks of our love — i notice this pattern of rising and falling up one day, down the next as if i am tidal yesterday welcoming the tiny red spider skittering across the kitchen table today wanting to kill it yesterday’s outrush of words is today’s inrush of nothing to say maybe it is the…Poetry2 min read
Apr 25Member-onlyBlue Watersa free verse poem for riparian: the banks of our love — “we watched the water rise… …we felt a swell in the lake of ourselves. we felt the surge of our rivers” — irreplaceable, Part 1 Their blue veins and currents are not blood in any sense reflecting our own, we tell ourselves. …Water1 min read
Apr 24Member-onlyover their tiny headsa free verse poem for riparian: the banks of our love — “and you know this place gives life…” — irreplaceable, Part 12 Above all this water is the mountain providing the where for me to exist. Never getting up and going on vacation or to meet another mountain like i can go and meet you. Here for hundreds of millions of years before a plant, animal, human arrived. How strange it must have…Poetry2 min read
Apr 22Member-onlyLove at the End of the Worlda free verse poem for riparian: the banks of our love — “Love at the end of the world must not be a diminished love, but one of endless expansion.” — Pam Houston By the end of the day, I began to unravel the stance of distance between you, me, and the doubled crested cormorant who lay sick and dying in the…Poetry3 min read
Apr 20Member-onlyShaped by Watera free verse poem for riparian: the banks of our love — “I feel elemental, brought back to the simplicity of bone and brine”— irreplaceable, Part 66 by Lara Chho a woman somewhere near me makes a living understanding how a river shapes earth i went to the water yesterday wanting intimacy — to ask coyote creek: who are you? how do i…Poetry3 min read
Apr 17Member-onlyGorgeous Invadera free verse poem for riparian: the banks of our love — i am the interloper my lover brings to Antelope Island… — irreplaceable, Part 58 by Daryl Wells Bothin Marsh, Easter Morning i. I didn’t see it the sun rise again, water light resurrected ii. ice plant blooms purple chokes out native plants, like me gorgeous invader iii. little anchor feet moored…Poetry2 min read
Apr 16Member-onlyConfused with Landscapea free verse poem for riparian: the banks of our love — “We did not own the land, we belonged to it.” — Sogorea Te’ Land Trust “the way you can feel her before you arrive” — irreplaceable, Part 70 A middle-aged woman squats, the full moon of herself exposed and hanging bright, her floodwaters release upon a meadow mowed round as a pupil, the sweet fat…Poetry3 min read
Apr 14Member-onlyPoint Molate Can Grow Us into Loversa free verse poem for riparian: the banks of our love — when praise continues to flow we watch the fence come down veins of rusted pipe rewound from the ground so wild hillsides can bust a gut fill a crumbling asphalt rut with laughter like the quake of Eucalyptus trees a chorus of leaves singing oceanic breeze bending bodies of limbs into sacred hymns of moving closer to what is…Poetry2 min read
Apr 12Member-onlyBlue Whalea free verse poem for riparian: the banks of our love — “bear witness even when you are afraid how can water be so heavy? the lake, my sister, lives in my body, carries my weight.” — irreplaceable, Part 6 If polar waters, if lengthy migration, if memory tracks shifting hot spots, if equatorial water winter. If she, if dinner-plate size aorta, if 400 pound heart, if…Poetry2 min read
