Lynne A. Goldsmith

 
Lynne's new full-length poetry collection (published by Resource Publications, an imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers) is available from online book retailers for $11!

--Two of Lynne's photos were chosen as the Nature Conservancy judges' "Favorites" in the climate category and the plant/fungi category in the 2022 International Photography Contest of over 100,000 entries. Didn't make the final winners list, but Lynne will have another nature photograph coming out in a journal in October and later in a book anthology.  

The two photos from the Nature Conservancy Contest:

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                      Waterful

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I sank my feet into mud,

walked closer to the falls I’d come for.

Knee-high in water, I stopped to listen.

I’d come to see the river

spill over along the rocks and run hard

down its vertical moss face with a sound

that I would want to remember.

Between these parted cliffs

granite holds sky and earth. 

I am no one here.

But the rock retains heat

and the fish stay cool.

Pools of years gather

depths not known.

The water remains reliable,

inviting as I enter.  Its breath,

pulse, soothe.

The water I can taste now

as it touches.  I sink into oblivion.

Overflow is everywhere.

       --Lynne Goldsmith

Poem published in 2000 by The Squaw Review, now called The Community of Writers Poetry Review

and then in Lynne's 2019 Secondary Cicatrices poetry book
  
  

Sunflower

Birds in the Caldor Fire