Barrow's Goldeneyes, Salish Sea

Seal woman in the Salish Sea, PNW

And in the slanted light of this season, the Buffleheads, in all their glory!

The Eared Grebes arrived yesterday, in their winter disguises. 🌤️🍂✨💖

Gull light sight

There is so much my eyes have seen, that my hands have done, and yet I know almost nothing. How many losses will it take for something like wisdom to set in? ~ Brian Turner, from Vigil

Such joy, still.

I felt honored enough, to be a Finalist in the Poetry category... Then I saw the company I was in... 💗 washingtoncenterforthebook.org/2025-washing...

Please join us for an online poetry reading in September? scoutronic.wixsite.com/we-poetry-se...

Off to get my spirit & voice elevated next week! Yep, along with friends and poetry loves, I'm in there. ♥️ #elkriverwritersworkshop #Montana

Gliding in Eld Inlet

Guess who is the new Assistant Managing Editor at MoonPath Press?!? And also, Final Judge for the chapbook contest below, closing 7/31/2025

Give yourself a few minutes of astonishment and hope. youtube.com/watch?v=t120...

Something about horses

Happy birthday to my memoir in poems, born this day in 2024. @lanaayers23.bsky.social

What sunrise does with a poppy #californiapoppy #may #sunrise #nikon #pnw #poetsofbluesky

Seal moms enjoying the day, before this year's pups arrive....

Puppets…

My new favorite more than human neighbor, Barred Owl

The greening time... lay down your arms and your worries, a moment or three... deep breath... then move forward as you are able. #greening #rhododendron #poets #tookyouwithme #joyisthejusticewegiveourselves

A reminder of how blessed I am by community and friends substack.com/@twosylviasp...

Camellia late in the day, after rain, my welcome home. #camellia #home #poetry #heart

You will need to state the reason for your visit. Don’t say because I am carrying prayers in my suitcase for a people who wait, and I’ll unfold them embroidered linens of verse and spread them out across the land. ~ Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, from Upon Arrival

I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.

Not a lit mag… but I am very happy to be in the March issue of Adventures NorthWest!

Leaders of the free world stand united in London The United States is not among them

Love beyond marital, filial, national, love that casts a widening pool of light, love with no need to pre-empt grievance. In today’s sharp sparkle, this winter air, any thing can be made, any sentence begun. ~ Elizabeth Alexander, from Praise Song for the Day

I theoretically knew this would be coming, and I may or may not have stood by my mailbox in the snow… but a real piece of paper from the Pushcart Prize humans came in my mail today!! 💗💓💗💓💗 #pushcartprize

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/we...

but all alive and all the lives persist perpetual in jeopardy persist as scarce as every one of us as difficult to find or keep as irreplaceable as frail as every one of us ~ June Jordan, from On a New Year’s Eve

Come see me, if you’re in the neighborhood?

Seems like best of friends…

I like to think that when lovers say they’ll love forever That really their love does last forever And even when they’ve separated And they sometimes hate each other And they eventually forget one another And they one day miss each other ~ Tilsa Otta, tr. Farid Matuk, from [I like to think…]

I'm going! 4pm Pacific Time. www.writerscenter.org/event-detail...

Dream Dust Gather out of star-dust Earth-dust, Cloud-dust, And splinters of hail, One handful of dream-dust Not for sale. ~ Langston Hughes

Tomorrow we celebrate Black Americans: MLK Malcolm X Travon Martin Breonna Taylor Eric Garner Tamir Rice Kendrick Johnson George Floyd Emmett Till Korryn Gaines Laquan McDonald Freddy Gray Michael Brown Ahmaud Arbery Booker T Washington W. E. B. Du Bois Ta’Kiya Young Thurgood Marshall Not Trump

Here's a peaceful moment for you, with a hooded merganser on the Salish Sea. Breath on the water.

One of my favorite things about being on the Board of the Olympia Poetry Network? I get the opportunity to invite awesome poets to do workshops for our subscribers (registration required), and to be featured readers at our Live and in-person monthly events in downtown Olympia!

Torres del Paine National Park, a moment before sunrise, May 2024. Gratitude for my incarnation.

Profoundly good start to 2025. Thank you Clare MacQueen, with gratitude. www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ26/Thoma...

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I breathe the sky, exhale nothing save devotion. ~ Lana Hechtman Ayers, from Wonder, in her Autobiography of Rain, from Fernwood Press

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Come new to this day. Remove the rigid overcoat of experience, the notion of knowing, the beliefs that cloud your vision. ~ Rebecca del Rio, from Prescription for the Disillusioned

Winter reading at Olympia Poetry Network, WA

The way you can go isn’t the real way. The name you can say isn’t the real name. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin, Taoing

A link to my Author page on Amazon, where both books are available on paper or Kindle. My Heart Is Not Asleep, 6/1/24, and Getting Here, 7/6/06. www.amazon.com/stores/Thoma...

You felt something follow you, the living person inside, and you have heard this voice for years like a bell, invisible as air clear as gentle rain ~ Linda Hogan, from Haunting

a moment’s high tide from silence in a kayak, sunrise after rain ~ TA Thomas

Thankful for creation, and buffleheads, and Salish waters, and sunlight, and fog

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