Just outside the front door of the Old Hardware Store in McCarthy, Alaska a young birch roots right between the road and the yard. The tree stands a few feet taller than me and embraces young bark that glows pale purple in the shadows of the summer’s late afternoon sun. Its young leaves cling [...]
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Birch Trees Are My Favorite
Posted in Environment, Non-fiction, place, Transcendentalism on December 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
not Outside
Posted in Environment, poetry on December 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dusted rose tenderly traps tectonic plates borne of Her arousal, near breakfast time the sentinel sleeps silently missing breath languishing from parted lips lingering longingly, two Magpies maneuver molasses skies framing the Alaskan Range. Sea shale succumbs to titan tidewaters tantalizing toes. Sentinels watch here, hovering, waiting, immortal to all but wind, water and time. [...]
Signs: A favor of communication or a slow acid burn of place?
Posted in Environment, tagged discovery, environment, moment, place on August 12, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Place is one of life’s grounding aspects that provides a shared experience between locals regardless of class, religion, sexuality, color, or creed. Intimate sense of place only comes through invested time and sharing the experience of living there with others. Residents are in on the joke. They own cherished knowledge like the discerning smile [...]
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