by Michaela McCormick USA Ticket office to a garden? Six bucks and it's all yours. The delicate, vibrant blossoms, the imported trees, the swarm of golden carp, and more – until closing time. Someone has done their best to preserve and showcase these treasures of nature. Walking the line between staking a claim and offering … Continue reading Our Nature

He paid for a mansion, he tarred the garden,/ He turned it into a tennis court...

There are things we were not meant to bear:/ the weight of plastic flapping in the hedgerows...

by W.Haslam, UK Mind Tom, just stay on the path, watch out for holes now, don’t fall. It’s dangerous out in the wind, that’s why they’ve built that great wall. This mute landscape once rang with gulls, burrows jumped with long–eared beasts, these cliffs, bereft of nests, run down to where the sea otter no … Continue reading Tipping Point Passed

Today as I walked,/ the smell of rain/ was not damp earth, ochre,/ but poison: a soft rising/ of rot and pesticide.

She had a give name...

My dog and I step outside/ to walk on soil the Sun dried./

Any who think trees do not scream/ have not listened to a forest razed.

At first we raised the issue,/ but the people in power were dismissive...

Ocean/ Eruption/ Volcanic/ Coral/ Limestone/ Millennia/ Black sand/ Pink sand/ Lilting/...