History, Natural History & the Arts
K. Gordon Tidball is a scientist, author, gentleman farmer, and citizen soldier. His poetry fuses humanistic leanings with deep connections to the natural world. His work has appeared in The Hill, The HazMat Review, Northern Woodlands, and the Journal of Veterans Studies, among others.
September Crickets
With the urgency of boreal fecundity
let us prick our souls and hasten the blooming summer
let us lap, and lap, and lap
insisting like westerly waves of Gitche Gumee
to make landfall, to make love all
enveloping and awash in soaking saturation
and then stop. [Read more…] about Poetry: September Crickets
Panting
I watched the sunrise, through a hazy veil of soot
particles of the forest I am supposed to be inhabiting…
but I am cancelled, the forest is closed.
Ashuapmushuan.
Where we watch for the moose.
Where I cannot go due to threat of
conflagration.
And here in the Finger Lakes
my covid-shredded lungs are
ingesting the panting of the Northwoods. [Read more…] about Poetry: Panting