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Skink
by Francesca Sasnaitis Download: sasnaitis-skink.mp3 The morning sun casts a square patch of light Aslant our small backyard. My pyjamas hang A shadow from the line, still in the still air. Over the...
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Autumn Equinox Creature Song
by Uche Ogbuji Download: ogbuji-autumn-equinox-creature-song.mp3 Summer is receding out Shape up to yell “Shoo!” The leavings of trees whip through the breeze And garnish the crumbs we strew; Away...
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Mourning Dove
by Louisa Howerow Download: howerow-mourning-dove.mp3 The curve of her small head belies the waddle of a body she settles under the spent lilac. Black eyes ringed blue take in the corner garden where I...
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Via Negativa
by J. Stephen Rhodes Download: rhodes-via-negativa.mp3 Hyeres You can’t write a poem about cats, some professor said some time ago, so this is not about them and how they might run this old city that...
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The Shepherd
by Donna J. Gelagotis Lee Download: lee-the-shepherd.mp3 At dusk the shepherd brings his sheep up the street, high above the coastal highway in a suburb of Athens. He does not greet passersby on motor-...
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Surveillance
by Ellen Birkett Morris Download: morris-surveillance.mp3 Stand in the street at dusk, watch the mother emerge, the ring-tailed rodent with the eyes of a thief. Remain convinced she’s watching you....
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Squirrels and Injury
by Jenny McBride Download: mcbride-squirrels-and-injury.mp3 The day after Christmas I saw a fox squirrel take a bite From the spoiling pear I tossed out days before. The pear long ignored, I looked...
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Putting Up
by Christi Krug Download: krug-putting-up.mp3 Busy and determined suburbanites never bother to ask permission; go about their projects without a word, building up and tearing down. They quarrel in full...
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Single-Minded
by James Burgett (Click image to view a larger version.) James Burgett (Light Box Photography) has pursued photography as a means of creative expression for decades. He finds inspiration in the...
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From Here
by Maggie Rosen Download: rosen-from-here.mp3 By the time I walk from parking lot to middle school, The mockingbird is repeating songs. He sounds like he is from here. Sometimes I hear a bird riff on a...
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Wherever There Is Water There Is Wild
by Timothy Walsh Download: walsh-wherever-there-is-water-there-is-wild.mp3 In the middle of a city or along a suburban street, wherever there is water there is wild—water wild as a wilderness lake,...
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Spring, Dripfisted
by Sarah Stanton Download: stanton-spring-dripfisted.mp3 the new leaves spit from the bud like licking lips and swinging tips and the very yellow sky is welling, swelling up with dust and pollen,...
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Wakeful
by Karen Greenbaum-Maya Download: greenbaum-maya-wakeful.mp3 A good suburban mom takes her four kits to scout. She’s den mother of the Coyote Patrol. They spill out into new spring’s almost balmy...
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The Hawk
by Ronald Pickett Download: pickett-the-hawk.mp3 We connected, the Cooper’s hawk and I. When I spotted it, it was less than 20 feet away, just outside the fence. He had imported the small cottontail he...
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Fox in the Shard
by Sarah Burke Download: burke-fox-in-the-shard.mp3 We explained to him that if foxes were meant to be 72 storeys off the ground, they would have evolved wings. —Ted Burden, BBC When the fox appeared,...
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On a Beech Branch, Noon
by Anna Lena Phillips Download: phillips-on-a-beech-branch-noon.mp3 West Point on the Eno City Park, Durham, NC “Like tigers,” said one kid. I’d taken them walking, up the path and past two...
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Let There Be Water For All
by Nicole Holovinsky (Click image to see a larger version) Nicole Holovinsky describes herself as a full-time vegetarian, part-time vegan, photographer, ocean lover, avid reader, cook, baker,...
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Animals
by Liz N. Clift Download: clift-animals.mp3 When the first goat came into Jasper’s — it walked on its hind legs — we thought it was a joke, something we could talk about at our day jobs. When the...
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At a Traffic Light
by Warren Baker Download: baker-at-a-traffic-light.mp3 I look up from my phone to see a gray fox dart across the road, its black-tipped tail sticking straight out, running from the remains of a meal...
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Playing Chicken
by Betsy Packard Download: packard-playing-chicken.mp3 She nests in a sprawling tulip poplar on a street of rental properties, fast cars and fire crackers peopled by many colors and tongues. She scolds...
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