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2021 Poetry Broadside Submission 28: BUDS AND THE GOLDEN SHOVEL after Nora Marks Dauenhauer By Tamara Holman, Soldotna

BUDS AND THE GOLDEN SHOVEL after Nora Marks Dauenhauer By Tamara Holman, Soldotna   Warm April hike, all forest beings’ breath bated. First sign of spring’s annual creation anticipated. The earth is soft, snow melts. Cottonwoods’ puckering trunks, topped with speckled branches. Tiny buds poised. Soon to be exploding with life! Air filled with their […]

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2021 Poetry Broadside Submission 26: FOX CREEK CABIN By Saundra Middleton, Anchorage

FOX CREEK CABIN By Saundra Middleton, Anchorage   Blistered heels in boots twelve miles old. Packs, five meals shy of the four-day load, dropped On the porch of the hiker’s haven. Sox dried, bellies fed, laughter squeals Over the cascading creek, Until yawns welcome early bedtime hugs. A porcupine prickle whittles away The posts beneath

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2021 Poetry Broadside Submission #24: PUSH PULL By Ruth Wood, Talkeetna

PUSH PULL By Ruth Wood, Talkeetna   Emitting vivid tones of summer and warmth Last year’s photo catches my eye Heart and mind leap forward in anticipation Until glancing out my window Today’s world of firm sun-glistened snow Pulls me back I gaze at birch and spruce Standing leafless and beetle-stress bare Their natures redefined

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2021 Poetry Broadside Submission 21: RIVER MEADOW By Margo Waring Juneau

RIVER MEADOW By Margo Waring Juneau The quiet brown river punctuated by exclamation points of fallen trees. Standing in the forest shade surrounded by alder and spruce. Early spring quiet without insect hum. Listening to the call of Steller’s jay. Spot lit by sun a river meadow, edged by chartreuse of early blueberry; bright with

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2021 Poetry Broadside Submission #20: OVERLOOKED By Jonas Lamb, Juneau

OVERLOOKED By Jonas Lamb, Juneau What it sees is not insignificant though at such scale and magnification we likely seem so much less than small. These bodies, their dark openings where we let in the light. Despite all our ruminations, our labors— blunt and bizarre we do not sparkle but blend in against the backdrop

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2021 Poetry Broadside Submission #19: GLACIAL REBOUND By Jeffery Brady, Skagway

GLACIAL REBOUND By Jeffery Brady, Skagway   Standing now where glacier towered seventy years ago, Blue ice of colorized photos, crevassed and crept upon By fanciful tourist picnickers, gives way to boulder erratics, Moraine, misgivings on move up mountain out of sight. How long does it take for land to start rising After such a

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