“Will somebody, let me see the light within the dark trees shadowing. What’s happenin? Looking through the glass find the wrong within the past knowing. We are youth. Cut until it bleeds inside a world without the peace, face it. …
Level-Up! Essence of Green :: December 2018
“The air is cold, metallic, sharp to breathe; scarves of woodsmoke drift in the sky over rooftops outlined with twinkling lights, and porch lamps gleam from early in the afternoon until long into the night.” – Michelle Morgan December …
Level-Up! Essence of Green :: October 2018
“A white lace of frost webs the sidewalk; a kaleidoscope of leaves. Hillsides are ablaze with flame-colored trees, fields lie fallow and dark, and cornstalks dry to the color of bone in the low golden sun. The sky promises rain …
Level-Up! Essence of Green :: September 2018
“Mist blankets the morning garden and the empty fields; a last rose blooms slowly over the arbor by the backyard gate. Paintbox leaves fall to the ground under galoshes and the wheels of slicker-yellow school buses. Sweaters come out of …
The Autumn Feels
The weekend began with a gentle whisper. All was calm. That has been rare lately, I have to admit, but I took the space that was given. This week, I sat outside my husband’s work waiting for him to come …
Level-Up! Essence of Green :: August 2018
“The summer air is hot and still, the afternoon hazy; crickets call relentlessly from among the brown grasses, and ears of corn are the same heavy, burnished gold as the late-day sun. Hawks circle in the blue-white sky overhead, and …