Come Drive with Me Driving west near Grand Island, across the braided Platte one more time, my–our–road begins its lone stunning uphill path across Nebraska. We pass train after train, intense-orange engines, cars heaped with black coal. Then suddenly, Sandhills! Anchored by Little Blue Stem […]
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Tundra Dawn by Denise Merat
A small band of scarlet pushes up against blue dark horizon, a slow reversal – one minute less than yesterday. Shuffling into slippers, I slide on my long, black woolen coat and wrap my scarf against the chill, snug about my neck. In late […]
Dubai by S. Neugebauer
the venetian princess of dubai lucia, trailing spouse, hepburn svelte tretchikoff pout, alone at her ceiling-to- floor endless window watching the facing tower’s desperate sky-hung washers young men with squeegee, soap, and swaying red buckets, descending by only a harness of helix, steely rope […]
Slow Poke Sunday by Nils Peterson
Travel Essay/Poem: Off, then, on my slow poking around the stone and cobbles of Sedbergh – out the back door of the manor house, up the gravel slope, through the iron gate, and poling my way along the back trail to town with my walking […]
Meditation on the Season by Nils Peterson
Meditation on the Season I used to go on walking tours, but there came a time when I couldn’t manage the challenging walks, but I could go a couple of slow miles over flat territory if there was a pub at the end of the […]
Travel Poems by Sarah Snyder
Travel poems from Maine, Rwanda and on the tarmac waiting for lift off.
