If our winged, scaled, and shelled relatives could speak with us, what might they say? On Endangered Species Day, we share from our archive this original poem by our guiding teacher Mark Coleman.
Read for a wide and loving embrace of Earth, from its mountains to meadows, frozen ponds to slender grass. In this poem, Rosemerry also dares to reach for hope.
Of all the planets on which you could experience life, Earth may be the most trying. Poet Carolyn Chilton meditates on how the deep breath may make living here a little easier.
“All it takes... is a photo of earth from space... and I’m stunned again, how much we are in this together.” Breathe in, breathe out, this poem by Rosemerry.
What are you voting for? Alfred K. LaMotte casts his vote for the cry of a loon, his grandfather’s bones, and the beetles that feed now with a poem that rings as a piercing reminder of the stakes beyond the self.
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