Photo Challenge & Poem: Peek
Did he want to be invisible? As still as wood, his head holds solitude in the corner. This bay...
Photo Challenge & Poem: Rounded
The whorl beneath a forelock, the velvet comma nostrils, the curve of a neck, the serpentine of a spine,...
Photo Challenge & Poem: Glow
The sun hurries now, eager to be gone. A chill breeze scatters the last embers of fall, crisp leaves layer...
Photo Challenge & Poem: Scale
The one you call cute, in a high-pitched squeal, hears no compliment. Is it your goal to demean me? Because...
Photo Challenge & Poem: Pedestrian
Young mare, on the full-moon night you were born, we recognized one another. It was an awkward kinship of un-belonging,...
Photo Challenge: Windows
Has it been a year? Scanning the pasture from the kitchen sink, I don't see your swayed back. A...
Photo Challenge: Layered
It began with a word so small and unspoken that it waited in a bitter slick at the back...
Photo & Poem Challenge: Visiting Friends
We shared stories as we drove up the canyon road that angled between rocks, colored grape and copper and sienna;...
Photo Challenge & Poem: Waiting
The air goes still on the prairie during that instant when my finished inhale lifts gravity and just before the...
Photo Challenge: Structure
This horse covers the ground more quietly on four hooves than my old feet can manage, dynamic strides so...
Photo Challenge: Corner
The first hint comes just at moon rise on an ordinary August weeknight. It's hardly a breeze at all, certainly...
Photo Challenge: Shiny
Birdwatching in the dark is an art best practiced with no yard light. Start just after the colors are...
Photo Challenge: Elemental
I remembered to sink the corner post deep, filled the hole with Quikcrete, and topped it off with dirt. Then...
Photo Challenge: Textures
She was a coyote fighter, moving just off the herd, across the high desert prairie. Buying her calves time...
Photo Challenge: Satisfaction
The sun leaves just the sky behind, a watery arch over the prairie, and my feet cling to the...
Photo Challenge: Unusual
It's not unusual to feel still air rush over your cheeks and past your ears. It's you moving forward in...
Photo Challenge: Collage
How many times did I ask on a breath and a thought that you consider the moment? Consider joining me...
Photo Challenge: Bridge
The frail filament strands that suspend us in parallel travel are intricately woven back onto themselves, situated so cleverly...
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