Landward

So many of us love wearing costumes for performances, and as children many of us became something other than what we were. HALLOWEEN by Catherine Young was published in Bramble in 2022.

In an abecedarian poem, the first letter of each new line spells the alphabet. THE RIPENING ABECEDARIAN by Catherine Young is from her collection Geosmin published in 2022 by Water’s Edge Press.

In OCTOBER by Robert Frost, the poet pleads with October to go slow. OCTOBER is in the public domain.

CONFLAGRATION INVOCATION is by Wisconsin poet Karen Ostrov. While watching over her toddler grandson in Oregon during the September 2020 wildfires and Covid 19 restrictions, the poet considers Rosh Hashanah 5781 and the binding of Isaac along with her role as a grandmother, sheltering her grandson for future generations.

Today the second reading from John Muir's book The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, written one year before his death in 1914. This gives us delightful insight into life more than 150 years ago traveling to America from Scotland on a rolling "bluff bowed boat" and discovering, in Wisconsin, new species of birds, animals and plants to delight the senses.

Wisconfluence is a series of four poems created for the MidWay Atlas, a seven-state Midwest artist project in 2022. WATER MEMORY is the contribution of Wisconsin Poet Laureate Laureate Kimberly Blaeser.

As the seasons change, so do the sounds of insects until they are gone. SEPTEMBER MIDNIGHT by Sara Teasdale captures the change.

AUTUMN AGAIN by Minnesota Poet Laureate, Joyce Sutphen, is from her collection Carrying Water to the Field.

Minnesota Poet Laureate Joyce Sutphen combs the road in search of the elusive agates in her poem IN QUEST OF AGATES from her collection Carrying Water to the Field.

Dioramas is from the memoir Black Diamonds: A Childhood Colored by Coal by Catherine Young, published in 2023 by Torrey House Press. The memoir looks back on childhood in a Pennsylvania coal mining valley, and Dioramas tells of the strange underground exhibit, a coal mine with mannequins.