Saffron City Press

Jack Philips

Lebanon / United States

Live report of goddesses by a pond: After reading cicadas as written from distant conjures

offering nymphic adorations in primordial number to slippery deities tiny barely-frogs on fronds, calling on breezes the

dragonfly legions, giving their skin to barefoot devotions bone and soul, flesh of blessing become more limpid, lucid by three.

Jack Phillips is a naturalist, poet, nature writer and founder of The Naturalist School, a nonprofit organization devoted to connecting with nature more deeply through creativity and deep encounters with wildness. He is a Pushcart nominee, poetry editor of MagpieZine, and author of The Bur Oak Manifesto: Seeking Nature and Planting Trees in the Great Plains and co-editor of Treasures of the Great Plains: an Ecological Perspective. His poetry has appeared in Hymn and Howl, Wild Roof, Flora Fiction, EcoTheo, Canary: a Literary Journal of the Environmental Crisis, The Good Life Review, and THE POET.  He is the grandson of Lebanese immigrants, has dwelled and traveled throughout the Levant, and currently teaches ecospirituality at Creighton University School of Medicine.