Birds fly up (Sketch for a new paradigm) ©Stella Body 2021 A New Year and a nearly new pair of hiking boots– hand-me-downs from my son, who is growing up–startles me when I look below. Birds fly up from where my feet have been –some skilled scorer of soles has set sky-creatures in the ground —Continue reading “Birds Fly Up”
Category Archives: Nature
Alone under the Moon
Alone under the Moon ©Stella Body 2020 Lover of loneliness and wandering, of upcast eye and tender pondering… – Keats A day twice-wintered, by season and by long lock-down… All my antidotes – the brief fureants I dance from kitchen to front hall to set my blood coursing, the huge desk, fashioned to the shapeContinue reading “Alone under the Moon”
Element of Still
Element of Still ©Stella Body 2020 African Journal: All afternoon, a small green frog sits near me at the far southern edge of a diminishing ‘mkondo’ (Swahili word for creek). Today, the water flows so slowly, it has begun to go backwards. Still he doesn’t move. His skin is smooth, live green freckled with amber. Continue reading “Element of Still”
Rewilding
Return me, oh sun, to my wild destiny…the solitary peace…the wind alive like a heart… I want to go back to being what I haven’t been. -Pablo Neruda Rewilding (Part 1 of a Series) ©Stella Body 2020 As I grow older, I can’t stop asking this question: Who can show me how live with a lightContinue reading “Rewilding”
Gifts from the Trail 