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Stamped into the cement of every corner in San Francisco sits the name of the street where you stand. You know exactly where you are in the city even if you don’t know where in the world you are going. Still, you’ll...

But Also there’s the chatter of the chickadees    and the screams of the jays      and the stridulations of the crickets          and the chorus of the frogs and Also there are shy, tiny flowers    and bold, bright berries...

It’s true that greed permeates our world It’s true that the takers take what the makers make It’s true that we cannot devour like this forever   And it’s true that your mom and your aunt make music when they...

A corpse in the earth A home for decomposers Here, a maggot breaks down a middle school snub There, a grub tears apart the ache of a love lost The microorganisms decompose every hurt, every regret, every failure What remains is...

Talk to the trees. They listen to you. Hear the birds sing as they catch the breeze. Observe the animals passing by. Speak to them with your gentle rhymes. The wind whirls and whispers Its territories are vast. Like the rain...

Amber can haul me like a sled. It’s what huskies are born to do. If she runs circles around my legs with her leash, my answer is simple. I sit. It’s nothing to celebrate.  We’ll walk when she calms down. If that makes a dog my...

Amber duels with the Irish setter. They weave, leap, dodge, bump, chase and nip. Amber halts. Laps from the bowl. Plops by the fence. Pants. The winning setter bolts through the king-of-the-mountain rocks. Runs the tunnel. Zooms...

My son and his son tame the beast in the pet by running him on trails to teach him respect for the alpha male and the rest of the pack, in precise pecking order.   Christopher L. Dornin has earned a New Hampshire Arts...

As we steamed towards Monhegan Island on a blissfully warm October morning, newly in love, The day blessed us with sun, calm seas, a charming village and quaint people, mostly painters. Now that we have grown what some call old,...

Even at this remove, my love for you heartens me, as I hope yours for me heartens you. Not absence making hearts fonder, for you are not absent from me. You exist both here and there at once. Not certain how that works unless...