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Incline Your Ear

Sarah Rossiter

Imagine the shell you find on the beach, a large conch, half-buried, glistening in morning light, waiting to be lifted, rinsed, held cupped to your ear: This is your...

Abundance

Sarah Rossiter

Clear water on a Catskill stream spills, flowing down a smooth rock face into a pool shaped like a cup held within high rounded walls. A Chinese painting, think...

The Space Between

Sarah Rossiter

How to describe what canโ€™t be seen, invisible, yet universal, what is, has been, will always be, the Endless One, the cosmic force without which nothing would exist, formlessness...

Climate

Sarah Rossiter

Where I live drought desecrates, Heat scorches fields, crops wither, Wasted while elsewhere floods Devour bridges to rip asunder Friend and family. Things fall Apart. The parched earth cracks,...

Rising, Rooted

Sarah Rossiter

Now is the timeto be still and listen,This is the beginning,Help us to hear,Rooted and rising,The sound of the sea,A whisper, a murmur,Help us to beFluid and flowing,The womb...

Acorns

Sarah Rossiter

Listeningto acorns fallfrom the oaksin the last lightof a late summerday to land out ofsight on the darkforest floor,I wonder howmany will findtheir way intothe soil to rootin secret,...

Sunflowers

Sarah Rossiter

Without warning, they appear, eachcluster separate from the next, goldbeads strung on strands of grass,glowing on the darkest days beneaththe fringe of summer trees, though whoknows how, or where...