April 18, 2018: Ice Out Report from early season canoeists #14 Little Indian Sioux North and the Portage River Open water can’t get here soon enough. We decided to go…
This transitory time of year reveals temporary treasures that can only briefly be appreciated outside of memory. Cameras only collect these beautiful things out of context, and so with imagination…
Poem: April Ice
April 10, 2019
April 10, 2019
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Poetry, Travelogues
ice, poetry, Spring, tim stouffer, winter
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April Ice Birch trees rise from the cliffs, tenuous in their grip on granite bluff and marginally layered soil, like teeth in a crooked, gapped and laughing smile. Against the…
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