Creation’s Sentries

 …like trees planted along the riverbank… –Psalm 1:3 The trees remind us of beginnings — roots that search, limbs that reach, the strength of standing on firm ground, the grace of covering, the rings of time that echo out like ripples across  a glassy lake teaching us the cycles of life that began when GodContinue reading “Creation’s Sentries”

Butterfly Haiku 3

What joy awaits you, when the breeze Hath found you out among the trees, And calls you forth again!  —  William Wordsworth, “To a Butterfly” Dawn calls all sleeping wings to waken and wander — still life aflutter. —C.L. Fisher, April 2022 Unless otherwise indicated, all writings and images are the work of C.L. FisherContinue reading “Butterfly Haiku 3”

Thin Air

“At this season of the year, darkness is a more insistent thing than cold. The days are short as any dream.” — E.B. White We wear the gray  of winter like a heavy coat, the long “a”  even sounds weighted  and tired, but January  exhales a thin air  after autumn’s bluster  thins the trees,  earth’sContinue reading “Thin Air”

Trees of Winter

Missing the green, I’ve become part  of the monotone gray, silhouetted against a cloudy sky, my arms stretched, seeking the warmth of a distant sun, cold and weary  as I wait for spring, walking among the leafless trees of winter. —C.L.Fisher, January 2022 Unless otherwise indicated, all writings and images are the work of C.L.Continue reading “Trees of Winter”