“I remember, back in the day If you wanted to travel, Wanted to play, You just up, and fly away.”   “Like Wilber and Orville, On a fast bike?” “No son, you can’t Imagine the like, Of taking a jet Clear out of sight!”  …

I feel like a wire, electric I feel like time itself is below, entire worlds just frozen, tiny A metal carapace is all that stops The world from meeting me too fast Thousands of feet up in the air hundreds of feet in little blue…

48 000 feet, cruising altitude, like sardines we’re packed in an aluminium can that floats in the sky, going at 800km/hr Lord receive me please if this tin can fails, and we’re forced to plummet to our demise, but i also see in my eyes,…

At night, when you and I are sound asleep The world changes around us Gradually but steadily New leaves turn The old ones turn to soil Insects come out and Birds break out from their shell Life and death is but a common occurrence As…

I remember when flying was a nervous wreck about take off and landing I remember when flying was a quick trip in and out I remember when flying was a trip without taking your shoes off I remember when flying wasn’t a ziploc bag filled…

If I have Daughters They must be a fine seed viable even in arid lands. Mother, Earth knows your essence: I planted songs of praise for those who take care of us – me and my kinds termed as open wounds to be sauced with…

(hour 15) By Sandy Lender   When they’re the size of a quarter You can’t sex turtles So she’s been named Josh all her life That’s thirty-two years now Some of them better than others Thanks to my financial highs and lows And my understanding…

“‘In some Native languages the term for plants translates to “those who take care of us.” – Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass I knew from a very young age my connection to the land No small feat for a city kid Every summer would find…

Beth A. Fleisher Hour 14   Prompt:  In her wonderful book Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer writes — ‘In some Native languages the term for plants translates to “those who take care of us.’  Use any part of this quote (with credit), or the ideas it contains as…

To those who care for others are a servant of the heart. To hold another’s sorrow be it close or far apart.   To go beyond the border and never to say no. To go the extra mile not letting the pain show.   To…