<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Under the Hazel Tree</title><description>Poems, stories and quiet reflections.</description><link>https://underthehazeltree.com/</link><language>en-ie</language><item><title>Notes from the Tree</title><link>https://underthehazeltree.com/journal/notes-from-the-tree/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://underthehazeltree.com/journal/notes-from-the-tree/</guid><description>Thoughts on writing, wild places, and the everyday magic that lingers in between.</description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Journal</category><category>writing</category><category>notebooks</category></item><item><title>The Old Road</title><link>https://underthehazeltree.com/stories/the-old-road/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://underthehazeltree.com/stories/the-old-road/</guid><description>Some places stay with you, long after you&apos;ve gone. The road remembers every footfall.</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Story</category><category>memory</category><category>coast</category></item><item><title>Dappled Light</title><link>https://underthehazeltree.com/poems/dappled-light/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://underthehazeltree.com/poems/dappled-light/</guid><description>The leaves hold whispers the branches understand, and light comes down in gentle hands.</description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Poem</category><category>light</category><category>summer</category><category>woodland</category></item><item><title>The Salmon Pool</title><link>https://underthehazeltree.com/stories/the-salmon-pool/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://underthehazeltree.com/stories/the-salmon-pool/</guid><description>My uncle said there was one fish in that pool, and that it was the same fish it had always been.</description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Story</category><category>river</category><category>uncles</category><category>myth</category></item><item><title>Nine Hazels</title><link>https://underthehazeltree.com/poems/nine-hazels/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://underthehazeltree.com/poems/nine-hazels/</guid><description>They say nine hazels leaned above the well, and everything they dropped, the water learned.</description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Poem</category><category>myth</category><category>water</category><category>hazel</category></item><item><title>The Quiet Hour</title><link>https://underthehazeltree.com/poems/the-quiet-hour/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://underthehazeltree.com/poems/the-quiet-hour/</guid><description>Between the last of the work and the first of the dark, an hour comes that asks nothing.</description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Poem</category><category>evening</category><category>stillness</category></item><item><title>On Keeping a Commonplace Book</title><link>https://underthehazeltree.com/journal/on-a-commonplace-book/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://underthehazeltree.com/journal/on-a-commonplace-book/</guid><description>Not a diary. A diary is about you. A commonplace book is about everything else.</description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Journal</category><category>notebooks</category><category>reading</category></item><item><title>Bogland Morning</title><link>https://underthehazeltree.com/poems/bogland-morning/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://underthehazeltree.com/poems/bogland-morning/</guid><description>The bog keeps everything: a shoe, a psalter, a summer&apos;s worth of weather.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Poem</category><category>bog</category><category>memory</category><category>winter</category></item><item><title>Lamplight</title><link>https://underthehazeltree.com/stories/lamplight/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://underthehazeltree.com/stories/lamplight/</guid><description>For forty-one years she left a lamp in the window, long after there was anyone to guide.</description><pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Story</category><category>waiting</category><category>home</category><category>winter</category></item><item><title>Winter Hazel</title><link>https://underthehazeltree.com/poems/winter-hazel/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://underthehazeltree.com/poems/winter-hazel/</guid><description>Bare, the tree shows its working — every decision it ever made about the light.</description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Poem</category><category>winter</category><category>hazel</category><category>solstice</category></item><item><title>What the River Keeps</title><link>https://underthehazeltree.com/poems/what-the-river-keeps/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://underthehazeltree.com/poems/what-the-river-keeps/</guid><description>A river is the opposite of a hoard. 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