thousands of tiny hatchling turtles leave sandy nests to greet the sea

the warbler arrives from her long journey to twirl in a basin filled by rain

the trout bearing two thousand roe uses her fins to follow the channel bottom toward the last pool, flips sideways, settles and leaves her eggs

the lakeshore lapped by rising water disappears among rock sentinels

glacial remnants roll into the riverine, become polished stone spheres traveling mountain valleys

the tinaja on a sandstone outcrop caught the storm's memory in a bowl where fairy shrimp, plovers, and bats find sustenance

the rivers braid from headwaters, weaving in convocation toward the ocean

sometimes the greatest sea mammal remains beached along the waterline of its belonging, carrying marine songs

the heron stiltwalks into the estuary from a marshworld gathering salt

the many-branched belowground toes of mushrooms seek moisture among the pores of soil, meeting invisible friends

the hurricane changes the cliff-face as an ocean's tongue licks the rocky headland 

dense fog rises from the misty muskeg, forming a sheath upon the boreal world

several days every year the prairie pothole tells moon-tales to the reborn wetland

water etches patterns upon desert sand, touching everything

the sinkhole stares skyward, holding the fossilized toward the living turquoise pool

a waterfall becomes a curtain carrying travelers and leaping fish

the young elk dashes through a mudpuddle in wild abandon, his mother browsing willow shoots nearby

seeds awake after generations below dry plateaulands to sprout into a rare rain

frost fingers the margins of the ice shelf winter leaves upon the river's edge

the dipper dives upstream into snowmelt waters, her feathers pleated against the cold alpine current

the monsoon heals jigsaw-cracked clay earth where underground colonies emerge to wave antennae and forelegs at the curtains of rain 

pools reflect drifting clouds before droplets dance to mirror starlit kaleidoscopes