chatoyance

Hi all - please see my nascent new blog here. https://luxannica.wordpress.com/ I hope to migrate all old work here, but that's where I...

  Photo of Corydalis solida “Beth Evans” from the author's garden One single name stuck at the end of the binomial, memento mori for a b...

Young Gymnocladus dioicus stems with leaf scars visible. Dimìtar Nàydenov, 2013 My fingers press on these cold keys and shed bits of skin to...

Volcanes de lodo, Buzau, Rumanía, 2016 Diego Delso The wet ground swelling, pregnant with something I can’t see. A skin of silt stretched o...

Manzanita Beach, December 6, 2024 Manzanita I Seeing it, why try to paint the ocean? Tides come; death and life, erased. Cannon Bea...

Red ink sundew (Drosera erythrorhiza) in Lesueur National Park, September 2021 , Calistemon, 2021 A paper cut, then a dark red bead—heme,...

Otter Mound Preserve , Carol VanHook, 2010 Your voice, imagine it—held in a conch shell, or in the damp cold breath of an unformed wish...

Image from this site . To bite down on the very thing itself that gives shape to our sounds, voice to our breath? Holding the idiom clo...