Portrait

Let me say the stars and I now meet eye to eye.
Yes I mean the stars actually look at me.
It took me some time to accept.
But I've learned that your stars are true to you.
I'll tell you a [+]

Piping Plovers are very cute. They got their name by their "peep-lo!" call. Piping Plovers will sometimes extend one foot into wet sand and vibrate it to get food. Piping Plovers are endangered. Thei [+]

If you visit Miami, Florida, and gaze across Biscayne Bay, you can see the 76-foot tall flyover ramp named Rickenbacker Causeway that connects Miami to the island of Virginia Key. There are no [+]

I once thought I didn’t know how to tell how time flies; tracking, following, and racing it always felt like a betrayal to my own identity, as if I was susceptible to guilt by simply hoping time [+]

She is beautiful. A fragment of the earth shining from glimmering rays of sunlight. A crystal flowing through time, crusading along the rapids. Her home. A serene cove, surrounded with the foliage of [+]

shoes hit the forest floor. Feet slap
mud. 17 children are running
inside of me. The first stabs his toes
into Earth. He grins and shoves
an earthworm into the [+]

“Um, does this kid have a snorkel?” I whispered in alarm as Allison and I watched the family trudge up the path to our hot spring. We already shared the pool with a smattering of other people and [+]

He would have to settle for an unmarked grave, if you could call it that, and his bleached white bones, stripped clean by wild dogs in a dry riverbed on the outskirts of Kabul, not unlike the one he [+]