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waves of snow receding across the high plains and on Cold Mountain, small rivulets almost silent blessings for the benefit of all beings, Platte Colorado, Rio Grande clearing the way, blocking the way, just one jay in the white...

Emerging poets, emerging writers— you’re exhausted by lack of publication, by lack of first book and lack of recognition. Emerging: consider how language capable of great precision can still fail. Look, I’m exhausted too. I, who...

South Point, Hawai’i I was six the year my parents divorced. Dad obtained custody. I was wounded, lost, a spectator puzzling things out. I seldom knew what was expected of me. During school breaks I visited Mom for a week or...

Tropical Butterfly Pavilion, Seattle, Washington Glenda zipped Trigger the Adventure Bear into her backpack, and we stepped in with the butterflies. We moved slowly, watched where we walked, gloried in the flutter of so many...

Volcano, Hawai’i Dad and I are in his backyard. A bee, docile in the cool morning damp, rests in the palm of his open hand. With a finger, Dad pets the bee tenderly. As if supplicants, we lean over the bee. I don’t know I’m...

President Obama and I were sitting in the back row of a church bored. “Hey Craig, how’s it going?” he whispered. I was surprised he remembered my name as we’d only met once in the Oval Office in a group...

Traffic lights don’t wait long enough for me to cross many young drivers frustrated by my brief existence as a 19-year-old boy walks in tennis shoes no laces no socks Craig Cotter was born in New York and lives in...

dusky junco, winged dumpling, ground and seed bound, you move in smooth gusts — a leaf through the winter graveyard of dried grass and broken flower pots. mallard duck and drake, bird boats of remarkable rudder-age, two...

For three years now the tulip poplar sets spiky blooms at the tip of each uplifted branch, placing bets in earth’s casino doubling down her starlit happy house of cards, holding an ace, drawing a trey, counting the weeks since...