A Fun-Loving Guide to the Natural World for Kids and Adults

Almost Lost

A walk through familiar landscapes,
streams and gnarled trees,
rocks and damp moss.
Then an eldritch thing,
something from another world,
and we can only stare.
For a moment, the familiar landscape becomes strange –
the stream speaks a forgotten tongue,
ancient messages are scawled in the twisted bark,
the stones mark their age at a time of forgotten beasts,
and the moss is a [...]