94-Day Trek Across Antarctica, February 2001 

Poetry

94-Day Trek Across Antarctica, February 2001    The news in Sunday’s paper, history Was made with skiers: Ann and Liv on ice. They crossed Antarctica. Allegory For girls around the world (taught to be nice), Your life, your spice might break categories! Inspired,...

[There’s pain as fingertips stiffen like cattails]

Poetry

[There’s pain as fingertips stiffen like cattails]   There’s pain as fingertips stiffen like cattails. On frozen shores the snowbirds glean seed hulls. A winter storm deepens: cold, cold needles fall, mysterious clouds and squalls. The trails All snowy,...

The Pine

Poetry

The Pine   Suffers from a wound. Its resin flows like a stream down the trunk, forms a pool on an upper nook that overflows like a slow-motion cascade into the arms below. All the golden beads soon harden, done weeping become white as candle wax, suspend as...

Lake Breezes, Now and Before

Poetry

Lake Breezes, Now and Before By Melissa Kalinowski   I wish I might always wonder how they move frilled-willow branches, lift perfume from water lilies, wheel downy seeds to someplace new. I wish I might always feel their presence uplifting as bird songs that...

The Way

Poetry

The Way By Melissa Kalinowski   Of the way the bumblebee goes, hangs upside down from the flower head of goldenrod, the way it absorbs the sunny panorama, the way it fetches sugary stores, the way it quits and journeys to a home far afield; an idea— of what...

Serenity

Poetry

Serenity By Melissa Kalinowski   Let the peace of a summer night ascend burdens from the day. Let the body rest in the woodland and witness lively affairs: the relays of ants race from trees to underground tunnels with nurseries, the golden hornets fly and hunt...