29Sep 2026 Taya Sanderson Kesslau

Who doesn’t want to die?

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Like cotton floating in blue sky on a soft June breeze. Like trail snake in glistening new skin sliding away from the old growth. Like sunrise over forest mist, the... Read More
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It’s coming anyway, right? – mh clay

18Jan 2026 Taya Sanderson Kesslau

When We Were Young

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We dreamt in green -  in honeydew. The drip and drop -  of succulence swelled -     to bursting, to oceans of sky in blue. In beating and thrum - ... Read More
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But we tried, we believed. Didn’t we? – mh clay

27Oct 2025 Taya Sanderson Kesslau

Backyard Bird Chronicles

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This morning I picked up the book you gave me years ago about backyard birds - a subject we both adore. I opened to the preface which was twenty-five years... Read More
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Work with the winged and prepare to take flight. – mh clay

12Jul 2025 Taya Sanderson Kesslau

What We Feel Most Has No Name

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In early morning amber tuft light, supine under the arch swoop sky, I wondered over cinnamon snip dotted here and there.   Callings of horse warble rang out over bird... Read More
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Feels so great to sound like this! (We welcome Taya to our crazy congress of Contributing Poets with this submission. Read more of her madness on her new page – check it out.) – mh clay

13Apr 2025 Taya Sanderson Kesslau

Emancipation

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Ten years today - marking the time of the whitewash. The do-over. The cut the shackles and run like hell into life and love and luminosity. Finally, a do-over. The... Read More
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To cut and run like hell? Heavenly! – mh clay

28Jan 2025 Taya Sanderson Kesslau

Roger

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Crocodiles have sophisticated hearts the article read. And then something about four chambers, atria, and ventricles. But I was lost in the gape-mouthed photo of the hideous thing. All those... Read More
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Maybe, after a while, is when to see this crocodile. – mh clay