by Matthew Johnson | Jul 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
Dreams of a Portland Watershed by Sam Olson Dreams of a Portland Watershed Through gullies we made a wilderness of, Arnold Creek raised us with its thickets. There were gutted, flipped-over cars. Mildew-coated homes abandoned mid-build. Fern-roofed sheds spilling...
by Danielle Gauntz, Allison Collins | Feb 16, 2025 | Uncategorized
Bobcat by Allison Collins Photo by Lori Ayre Bobcat In summer, my husband saw a mother bobcattrit-trot across the bridge up the road,trailing three cubs.Like me, I thought. He’d warned the men working there,orange-vested and steel-toed, to be wary.Warned, too, the...
by Henry Hughes | Sep 10, 2024 | Uncategorized
Emergence by Henry Hughes Photo by Henry Hughes Emergence Ankeny Wildlife Refuge The Rail Trail’s shotgunned sign, squashed masks, and slick boardwalk are engagements of neglectthat don’t faze the song sparrow, the wrenriding out winter among the purple leaves...
by Penina Ava Taesali-Matthews | Sep 10, 2024 | Uncategorized
Return by Penina Ava Taesali-Matthews Photo by John Lewis Matthews Return You are here. Use your good ear. Sense there, high at one-o-clock, on that dead snag, two adult bald eagles. One lifts its head chortling to the sun. Winter rains restore the marsh. We are good...
by Lex Runciman | Sep 3, 2024 | Uncategorized
Bird Time, Baskett Slough by Lex Runciman Photo by Lex Runcimain Bird Time, Baskett Slough Under winter geese-talk descending, we’re listening to, listening forsmall staccato, ratchet and chatter, pure notes, four notes, lilt and lull, repeating – not exactly call and...
by Karen Holmberg | Sep 3, 2024 | Uncategorized
Dissolution Song by Karen Holmberg Photo by Karen Holmberg Dissolution Song Finley Wildlife Refuge ∴ Nothing’s lost or done for. Untold gillions toil and till, slit tight hulls, unshroud. A gust tussles lung lichen, tousling the old god’s suit to loosen dusty...