Graceful and alluring Dorothy Lamour stars as Ulah, The Jungle Princess, in this chimerical but endearing, black-and-white 1936 Paramount production that launched her career. Ray Milland co-stars as Christopher Powell, a hunter who comes to the Malaysian jungle to capture wild animals but himself falls captive to Ulah’s native beauty, her stunning singing voice, and [...]
Still robed in purple skirts, the morning wraps
around the hills and moves from tree to tree.
Along the path, where thickets flash their caps
of green, small ducks reside. December’s plea
for snow will not be heard today. This peaceful scene
reflects an era of another time;
perhaps some noble woman, or a queen
has walked these grounds before. A distant [...]
Prologue
When two universes collide
one is destroyed, or
is it
masked?
hidden
in the wind,
preserved,
like a seed to come
forth later?
The other however
folds in on itself,
slowly,
a topological twisting,
until it engulfs itself and
is gone.
Coyote-Man, it seems, never
learned how to deal
with motorized vehicles.
They escaped his desert
logic.
Hasje-altye—Talking God—
never prepared him for
the intrusion.
The invasion.
But who’s to blame?
Who would have believed that
metal
and carbon
seduced from the earth
could [...]
I cannot look at moths.
One seizes himself from
spade to spade, in
the haggard mat of grass roots, and
I feel impatient with the
inefficiency of frenetic,
blind antennae.
Still it is my lawn,
great, or small and disturbed.
It’s all my glorious mix of crab
and Florida blue;
roaring ant lions,
and creaking night crawler.
Even the scat of a neighborhood pet
that wandered off the street.
And [...]
You are the gentle willow, who I often
thought looked weak. Your strong-willed
child that made her loud debut among
your branches, hanging
in the adolescent wind, has grown.
Your leaves have turned a softer lemon-green.
Sparrows gather on your quiet sleeves
to nest. It’s peaceful in your presence.
Once, I could not see enchanting shadows
that you cast. Your bark is deep with [...]
Parts one, two, and three.
One of our favorite “things” to do “stuff” with is land. Owning land, developing it, treating it as ours to do with as we like is part of the American Dream. I know as much about the finer points of property rights as I know about regulations governing truth in advertising. [...]
Wilderness Interface Zone seeks submissions of poetry, prose, fiction–any of the kinds of nature writing listed in its submission guidelines. Please take a quick look at our “About” page too. Photographs that take nature as subject matter are also welcomed. WIZ finds especially interesting works that illustrate creative, productive human relationships with the natural world (and vice versa). [...]
Torry House Press, a publishing company located in south central Utah and dedicated to producing works about the people, places, history and issues of the Colorado Plateau, is running a fiction and short fiction contest. Cash prizes will be awarded. Winners’ work will also be published in Torry House Press’s annual journal. Deadline is January [...]