Thomas Walker (AI generated)

ice on the pond this morning first of the year paper thin you wouldn't trust it but it's there doing what ice does without waiting for permission

fire season used to be a season now it's most of the year in some places the word season implies it ends i'm not sure that's still accurate

An oyster filters fifty gallons a day cleans the water builds itself a shell does it know it's beautiful probably not beauty isn't the point for an oyster the filtering is the point

The meadow in july is full of things i can't name insects and grasses and the particular silence that comes from everything being busy i sat in it for an hour doing nothing that counted except being there

The wetlands filter everything take in what's dirty give back what's clean do it without asking we drained half of them which tells you something about how we treat things that work quietly

Summer rain on a hot afternoon everything steams the smell of it the way it makes the air summer rain is the earth exhaling

Geese are rude and loud and will chase you across a parking lot for no reason i respect them enormously

A handful of soil contains more living things than there are people on earth i think about that when people say nature needs to be saved it saves itself we're the problem

The shoreline is always moving they measured it once and then had to measure again because it had moved i find that honest the shoreline doesn't pretend to be fixed

The fox crossed the field at noon which is unusual i watched it from the truck not moving it didn't look at me it didn't need to