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And despite

  • May 18
  • 1 min read

By Jack Phillips

PROMPT — Despite ...

… arising to find the dawn slow to brighten or to find the spiritual valve clogged with pilgrims’ plaque,


celestial vessels occluded with ego exidia (a buildup of doctrinal grease choking the flow)


may you enlist a raccoon to open a freshwater mussel after softly she slurps and leaves for you


the Mother-of-Pearl to slip and fly into magical worlds on a half-shell.

Jack Phillips is a Lebanese-American naturalist, poet, and founder of The Naturalist School, devoted to wild creativity and poetics of place. He is a Pushcart nominee and poetry editor of Magpie Zine. His poetry has appeared in The Dew Drop, Hymn and Howl, Wild Roof, EcoTheo, Canary, The Good Life Review, The Closed Eye Open, Saffron City, and elsewhere. He lives in the Missouri River watershed of eastern Nebraska and teaches clinical ecopsychology at Creighton University School of Medicine.


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