Ikky-Tiki-Poo-Poo!

  Surrounding me every quarter inch it looks like a field of sprinkled pebbles   Except, it is not It is my very own waste as I struggle to find a peace-filled, dark, warm, and dry place to rest I really want to rest. My name is Ikki-Tiki-Poo-Poo.   I am a grown female bat […]

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Ikki-Tikki-Poo-Poo!

Surrounding me every quarter inch it looks like a field of sprinkled pebbles. Except, it is not. It is my waste coming out of my body as I struggle to find a peace-filled, dark, warm, and dry place to rest my weary body. My name is Ikki-Tiki-Poo-Poo. I am a grown female bat living on […]

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GreyBaby Comes Home

  What a kitty!  He sleeps soundlessly with me each night Sometimes sprawled on his back as though awaiting a tummy-rub He brings such joy each day at the cobbled-together fresh lake cottage in north-central Florida.  He is a “Rescue” which means he is found by dear neighbors wandering as a wild animal throughout the […]

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Ikki-Tiki-Poo-Poo

Surrounding me every quarter inch it looks like a field of sprinkled pebbles. Except, it is not. It is my waste coming out of my body as I struggle to find a peace-filled, dark, warm, and dry place to rest my weary body. My name is Ikki-Tiki-Poo-Poo. I am a grown female bat living on […]

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Rewilding Ms. Dirt Dunn

    Excerpt from “The Case for Passive Rewilding” by Alistair Walsh 11.10.2021 There are three key components to passive rewilding, according to Pereira, a professor of biodiversity conservation at the German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research at the University of Leipzig. The first is restoring trophic complexity, or biodiversity, by allowing wildlife to return. This usually […]

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Ti Amo Loves Hurricane Heaven

POINT OF VIEW: A Dog Named Ti Amo My friends and I do not relish hurricane season. The truth is, we unequivocally ADORE it. Wah-hoo!!! We live in Florida in the United States. Our owner, Fawn Rising, keeps preparations set up for emergencies. She is always prepared with a plan. We try to help her […]

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I Know Her When

  When the family pets lick her stuck out tongue   When her face lights up at the sound of my lullaby    When her father enters the room and she squeals relentlessly, seemingly without breath    When she pulls her cloth diaper off and crawls down the sandhill lake property to the clear water’s […]

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An Absence of Threat

  An Absence of Threat   I am drawn, without being cognizant of it, to humans and places and animals who are non-threatening to themselves, and to others.   Photography by KatrineDunnPhotography©2020 Poetry by FawnRising©2021 February 19, 2020 Le Lac du mon Père Crystal Lake Florida USA Earth

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