What must we do for the Earth again to be our home? Radio Free Olympia unites a captivating circle of visionaries, folktale characters, and historical figures who struggle to return to their old-growth existence on Washington’s wild Olympic Peninsula. Coming soon from Indie Bound, Barnes and Noble, and Amazon.
In Her Beginning
In her beginning
she she a tear.
And she felt alone,
solitary,
only.
One.
And She walked out.
She walked across a plain.
She walked through a valley.
She walked alongside a mountain.
And She felt wistful,
a deep longing,
dreamy,
so much so,
that rising from
below came
a wellspring,
gushing.
The fountain mist
froze.
The fountain edges
melted
turning ice to
rain,
turning rain to
rivers,
turning rivers to
oceans.
And She birthed souls.
The wistful
dreaming inside
took root,
ripening,
bursting outside.
Sea otters.
Orcas.
Eulachon.
Humans.
And She birthed a forest.
The profound
blessing inside
took root,
ripening,
bursting outside.
Giant kelp.
Sugar kelp.
Bull kelp.
Rainbow-leaf kelp.
And she wandered
forlorn.
She yearned
fancy.
She bore Beere.
She bore Petr.
And she bore you,
dear reader.
And she bore me,
yours truly,
White Otter.
Homecoming/Beere's Journal/Entry 1
I am home,
dear Mother,
your precious Baie,
French for berry,
pronounced bay,
the one you
faithfully planted,
the one who
deeply rooted,
the one you
lovingly nurtured in
your cranberry bog.
As I grew,
I heard your call.
Dinner was served,
the warm applesauce
spooned onto
spatter-blue tin plates.
My mouth curled like
a tart apple slice.
Your finger twig wagged
—Cranberry blossom,
take up your pen and
write your soul.
