Fractured Horizons
In this poem, Claire Kroening explores the growth and erosion of life in the analogy of nature’s slowly-fleeting wonders.
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Nature
Beneath the Live Oak Tree
A draping canopy, but the rain still pierces where the leaves break. She sits comforted in a timber embrace.
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Paths Since Forgotten
Claire Kroening explores the rawness of nature’s beauty in this prose-poem, drawing forward the simple movements that make the land sacred— not merely a home to the wildlife present.
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Persist
The power of the earth isn’t it’s riches it’s resources or it’s strength. But in its persistence. Steadfast through storms and quakes. Floods and droughts. There is no valor in its strength to withstand pain or be unaffected. For its tribulations tell its story through every way it is molded and layered. It persists. Its
Cloud
A cornucopia of vibrant flames A young girl peering into a reflective lake The white tufts of cotton mold and shape over and over showcasing the depths of their versatility The moving picture never asks permission to change Never explains the shape it takes It just is It changes with the
Fireflies at Dusk
I yearn for the simple things: fireflies at dusk. To sit in silence, watching the sun fall behind the trees, Casting shadows that reveal the chill that comes with being alone. Take me to a place with no time and I will sit and watch the rain hang in the air, Rainbow-tainted crystals that reveal
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