Prose & Poetry

Facebook Shares Find a place at the edge of a swamp Listen and learn and take in who goes – who stays – what’s eaten – what decays – all the stinks and stews of it in the percolating ooze … Read More

Facebook Shares by Ray Ruhlen We have an extended family of crows around us, I have fed them daily after lunch for many years, we get along together, the crows, me, and out black cat, Mr. Squeakers, who I take … Read More

Facebook Shares by Alden Nowlan

Facebook Shares by Ray Ruhlen “A crow stood on the burning deck, eating potatoes by the peck”We have an extended family of crows around us, I have fed them daily after lunch for many years, we get along together, the … Read More

Facebook Shares … we’d go tramping off the back road through salal and ferns and huckleberries and hike the dry logged-off ridges crisscrossed with wild strawberries tiny and tasty and gritty with sand We’d stomp down tough blackberry vines raveling … Read More

Facebook Shares Dad where have you gone? Did you leap quicksilver into a big run of legendary June Hogs now long lost? Or are you too smart for that? Did you break through the trap of extinction holding to the … Read More