Author Archives

I am a writer and naturalist who lives in a little log cabin by a brook with my two dogs and a ring necked dove named Lily B. I write a naturalist column for a local paper and also publish essays, poems and prose in a number of other publications.

• Witness by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on November 20, 2018 • ( 13 )

  

  Witness   It was dark when I first heard Her whooing overhead bearing witness, ushering in the First of the Harvest Moons. The seasonal wheel turning towards ripe fruit and swelling seeds. Summer’s Bounty. This goddess is cloaked in feathery… Read More ›

• Second Class Citizen by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on November 9, 2018 • ( 7 )

  

  Second Class Citizen   When he backed me up against the tree inching towards me menacingly with his big powerful car I couldn’t believe what was happening. I was holding the space for a car full of dogs waiting to… Read More ›

• In the Shadow of Santa Rosa by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on October 23, 2018 • ( 9 )

  

  Last night I had a nightmare. I am dressed in a white cloak that obscures all but my face. The robe is splattered with paint and blood. I am awash in every color of the rainbow and dripping paint. I… Read More ›

• La Llorona by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on October 2, 2018 • ( 20 )

  

  The legend of La Llorona has been a part of Hispanic culture in the Southwest since the days of the conquistadores. Though the tales vary from source to source, the one common thread is that La Llorona is a woman named… Read More ›

• Singing up the Dawn, a poem by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on September 20, 2018 • ( 9 )

  

  My walk to the river is a joyful entrance into the eternal Now. The water flowing,   crushed fresh mint, trilling bird song desert air so sweet   my body vibrates drumming with all that is… Returning under the bowing… Read More ›

• Israel Francisco Haros Lopez by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on September 12, 2018 • ( 5 )

  

  Borderless Haiku: We have forgotten the names of each other underneath the shedding skin those names written in our blood that have danced to tonantzin tonatiuh before they knew they were lovers. (IFHL) Last week I was fortunate to have… Read More ›

• Review: In Search of Pure Lust, author Lise Weil by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on August 30, 2018 • ( 14 )

  

  In this remarkable memoir one woman’s life is set in the collective context of the women’s movement as a whole, and through Lise Weil’s eyes we get to see the “both and” quality of her struggle to understand the wound… Read More ›

• Emergence: Poem to a Plant Goddess by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on August 9, 2018 • ( 12 )

  

    Her name is Datura. Delicate fluted deep-throated trumpets open to humming honey bees and summer rains. She communicates through scent.    In the fall I collect her sharp-needled pods. They rattle like dry bones. I chill them. In the… Read More ›

• Nichos Embody Natural Grace by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on July 24, 2018 • ( 7 )

  

  A ‘Nicho‘, is a three-dimensional or recessed area used to honor an important figure, saint, or loved one. Nichos originated as an adaptation of the Roman Catholic ‘retablo‘, painting of a patron saint on wood or tin. When I was… Read More ›

•  Witches in the Weeds by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on June 24, 2018 • ( 15 )

  

  In folklore Old women are believed to control all aspects of Nature – Fire, Earth, Air and Water, but in myth and story they have a special relationship with water. The title “witches in the weeds” emerged after I did… Read More ›

• Four Worlds Poem by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on June 4, 2018 • ( 12 )

  

  They came from Life giving Waters, emerging from a Lake at the Beginning of time. Avanyu – Serpent, Spirit of the River pecked into stone or painted on canyon walls embodies their story.   The Tewa settled above the Great… Read More ›

• Querying in the Context of Religion and Science by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on May 9, 2018 • ( 23 )

  How do we respect materialistic/mechanistic science – the myth of our time – when it continues to use non-human sentient beings for it’s own gain? How do we respect religions for the harm or damage that these beliefs may cause… Read More ›

• Please, Let’s Give Feminists a Break by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on April 22, 2018 • ( 12 )

  Please, Let’s Give Feminists a Break. I remember so vividly entering graduate school in my early forties and being told I was an “eco – feminist” by my professors. What does that phrase mean I asked having no relationship that… Read More ›

• Stories the Stones Tell by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on April 12, 2018 • ( 19 )

  

  A couple of days ago I was climbing a mesa with my friend Iren who is “a guide to the wild places” – those places off the beaten track where stories are told by the stones and the Earth that… Read More ›