I awoke today to find
There are birds.
Tag Archives: nature writing
The Breakers
Standing on the breakers
in the spray
it can seem
Like the rock is winning
Life Will Out
Life is the dandelion in the sidewalk crack that shrivels under a spray of Round-Up and then shoots up a new stalk next day, the lichen on the headstone, the bacterial bloom in the holding tank. It is tiny and mighty and everywhere. The sublime is underfoot.