Michael Scott Meinert

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MIchael Scott Meinert is a writer, educator, outdoor and world enthusiast

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    • Where Eternity Collides

      Born of wind and currenthalf a world of fetch away,the restless waterpiles mote on molecule. Energy unknownbuilds secret, patient swellsthat nudge an oceanto a distant shore. Waning depthscraft translucent tubesof steel and gray,turquoise and jade. Football-pitch lengthscurl and collapse,crash onto…

    • Thoughts on Burning Man 2023

      Each year it takes me a while to warm up to Burning Man. It’s not like checking into your ocean side hotel after a long…

    • There’s No Place Like Nome

      I landed in Nome in a light drizzle after spending two hours above the overcast following the Alaska Range from my window. Its loftiest peak,…

    • How Was Your Morning?

      I imagine there are worse places to run out of gasin the frantic days just before Christmas.But the far left turning laneAt Kietzke and Plumb…

    • Bugs of June

      remember the bugs of June? those first sweltering summer eveningsour flat-lander family of eighttook refuge behind screen-doorsthe terrifying pitch-black wilderness beyond deep-wood baritone frog ribbitsand trilling cricketsphantom mule-deer with glowing eyesoccupied the shadows star infernos peppered the black skythrough fractal…

    • You Can’t Eat A Mango Neatly

      Under the giant at Latopa RoadSun-filtered shadowsMassiveResoluteScimitar leavesCumulus heavy with sunrise orbsWeak limbs that Samoan mothers teach their children not to climb They gather beneathChildren,…

    • Deep In The Somewhere Past

      deep in the somewhere morningas the valley awakensbelow a bloated mountainwhere winter snow yet rests tang of new bud and leafsails on a breath of…

    • A Thousand Words

      They say a picture is worth a thousand wordsEmbed one in anotherAnd the words surely multiply Old friends join me in the Black Rock DesertA…