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It’s been a long Indian summer
and the hips are rotting on the beach rose.I can almost taste their sour skins –
red balls of seeds glistening…—Marion McCready, “Rose Hips and Thistles”
published in MADAME ECOSSE (Eyewear Books, 2017)https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/rose-hips-and-thistles/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #autumn #September #naturewriting #naturepoetry
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Strike
The phobia of a copperhead strike
is made real by the lunge of a
lawnmower into the brush to shred
the coiling orange and brown with
a screaming whump only to realize
that it was an eastern box turtle
I had set upon.
Once again what I am afraid of
has led me to destroy what I love
and I weep, wondering if I will ever
become one whose perceived fears
are not acted on.
I did not look to see if the
slowmover was dead
but I knew. I could see the
bloody pieces of her
shell scattered across
the lawn.September 3, 1996
#1996 #accidentalHarm #backyardEncounter #boxTurtle #compassion #confessionalWriting #copperheadFear #CreationCare #creaturelyGrief #destroyingWhatWeLove #ecologicalGrief #Fear #fearAndViolence #fearBasedAction #griefAndRemorse #HereAreWordPressTagsForThisPieceEasternBoxTurtle #humanFear #lawnmowerTragedy #moralReflection #Nature #NatureWriting #Nonviolence #orangeAndBrown #perceivedDanger #phobia #poem #POETICAORAREContemplativePoetryPrayers #Poetry #ProsePoem #Repentance #sacredCreatures #shell #SLOWMOVERFollowingGod3mph #Slowmover #Sorrow #SpiritualReflection #thoughts #turtle #turtleShell #unintendedViolence #Violence #vulnerableCreatures #whatIAmAfraidOf #whatILove #wildlife #Writing -
Sunday #ReadingSpot ready
* Tea ✓
* Blanket ✓
* Comfy armchair ✓
* 16th November entry of A Nature Diary by Richard Adams read ✓
* The Fixed Period by Anthony Trollope ready ✓We got a few minutes of sun, which was a bit eerie, we’re still under storm Claudia, and the setting in the photo turned quite dark quickly after. So dark in fact that it is as impossible to read without a light.
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Saturday's rainy mornings: #books & a hot cup of tea
#Readings #AnthonyTrollope #TheFixedPeriod #Dystopian #Victober2025 #ElizabethFair #DeanStreetPress #NatureWriting
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No es Ceric, no es De Precy, es nuestro traidor favorito y ha sacado nuevo libro. Qué bien.
@elbaeditorial
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Remember how we said land doesn't have to be pristine and green for it to inspire you creatively? Into Writing the Occult: Connection to Land comes Kerry Hadley-Price to talk about the inspiration she finds in England's industrial heartlands. 🧵⬇️
#writersofmastodon #blackcountry #blackcountrywriters #writingevent #naturewriting #climatechange #climatefiction #ecofiction #fantasy #horror