Tag: Rivers

Animals in Winter: as large as fog, as warm as bread

by Nancy Schoellkopf, posted in Magical Realism, Poetry

Polar Bears, fragrant and prickly,crouch in the coldlistening for the echoof flute notes in crystal caves.Fiercely, fiercely bread bakesdefying the bitter stingof tule fog.Follow the riversfollow their floating trails of sycamore leaves and orange blossoms.One river flows west.One river flows south.Crashing together, a joyful tumble.Saint Francis is beckoning:he will take you all the way to … Continue reading Animals in Winter: as large as fog, as warm as bread

Life on the Flood Plain

by Nancy Schoellkopf, posted in Children, Families, Grace, home, Hope, National Poetry Month, Pets, Poetry, Possibility, Rain

Another original poem for National Poetry Month! This week's offering is a tale of my California childhood, back when the rain was plentiful enough that we'd often watch the winter river rising against the side of the levee. Life on the Flood Plain   Nestled in the south elbow of the levee we are sheltered … Continue reading Life on the Flood Plain