Articles by Richard D. Hartwell

Essay

• Cry Fowl (April 10, 2023) essay travel humor

  Good thing they're delicious...

• Let Us Pray (December 4, 2023) essay spirituality

Prose

• Two Faces Has She (June 12, 2023) prose poem

  "...hard fought from multitasking and justly earned..."

Poem

• Ablution (July 10, 2023) poem unrhymed

  "...earth spins and the eastern horizon dives under the rising sun..."

• Women of the Church (October 23, 2023) poem unrhymed

  "...Expansive in their spirituality and earned merit..."

• Cradling Death (November 13, 2023) poem unrhymed

  "...There is no good death..."

• Are Humans the Pinnacle of Evolution? (January 8, 2024) poem unrhymed

  "...Elephants go through six sets of teeth in a lifetime..."

• Sea Song (January 29, 2024) poem unrhymed

  "...to address us who once came out of the waters..."

• Cheshire Cat Moon (February 26, 2024) poem unrhymed

  Haiku...

• Eerie Snow Light (March 11, 2024) poem unrhymed

  "...Lawns frozen into a vast aprons..."

• Asymmetry (April 8, 2024) poem unrhymed

  "Awakening to the call and response of geese..."

• In Praise of Prayer Outdoors (May 6, 2024) poem unrhymed

  "...to observe the inexhaustible power of creation..."

• Bliss (July 22, 2024) poem unrhymed

  "The warmth of welcome imbues the church..."

• Knowing How to Tithe (August 19, 2024) poem unrhymed

  "...but they come at a cost, right?..."

• Never a Birder Will I Be (October 14, 2024) poem unrhymed

  "...unlettered in those with feathers..."

• Birch Tree Elder (November 11, 2024) poem unrhymed

  "...at least I think it’s dead..."

• A Dying Year (December 9, 2024) poem unrhymed

  "...trees are nearly ghostlike now..."

• Into the Woods (January 6, 2025) poem unrhymed

  "...follow them, like children chasing dreams..."

• Spring Tree (February 3, 2025) poem unrhymed

  "...strings of frozen drops dangling on twigs..."