Northern Cardinal Review

I do not know when it started. I refuse to blame the beetles, Nor do I blame the fungus, dumbly …
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Safe the harbor here where hardwoods creak in wind bend along the water’s edge to kiss and mix their shadows; …
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Did you ever understand the chance of rain? Either it rains or it does not, There are two options. Scientists …
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While a man in panic bangs pots against pans to scare away a grizzly bear, A woman brushes her teeth, …
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Today it’s hemlock smoke, or cedar and, under thin clouds and the huge blue, I’m on a hillside, high, dreaming …
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Why must these sudden astral creatures, sprung by Earth’s sunny inclination to hue the sky from atop their lank scaffolds— …
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The redbud tossed a few leaves today, not even a dozen, but tomorrow’s count will match today’s and raise the …
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This hairy thing has me in a Sunkist cranial head lock. All morning floating on a gauzy sea of yellow …
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(Manitoulin Island, summer 2010) Cicadas are sliding into the mystery of night with mournful knee music the juice inside their …
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Half light, no moon, the lake solid. Not liquid at all. On the far side muffled chatter. An ocean away. …
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