Nature… Bumblebees 3 Aug 20203 Aug 2020 Photograph by Richard Lebowitz: Bumblebee on Midwestern Tickseed Sunflower I heard the bumblebees before I found them in the half-light of evening. The stems bending under their feathery weight…
Nature… IN DARK TIMES WE GATHER LIGHT 3 Aug 20202 Aug 2020 Catherine Young's writing has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best American Essays. She worked as a national park ranger, farmer, mother, and educator. Her ecopoetry and prose is…
Nature… Song of Thanks 3 Aug 20203 Aug 2020 The butterfly drifts in a kaleidoscope of dreams. Stirring our imagination with songs of eternal summer. Imprinting life’s lessons from flower to flower. Its’ delicate wonderment propels us to look…
Nature… Condo Aviary 3 Aug 202014 Jul 2020 It’s three in the morning and I wake to the incessant tweet, tweet, twittering of sparrows in concert with a shrill twisting chir-rup, chirrup, chirrrr a chorus that fills the…
Nature… Sandy Loves Rothko 3 Aug 202014 Jul 2020 And glass and flight paths of winged hive makers Growing green things to pull them nearer to feed them To create home part of a whole Sandy and I are…
Nature Poetry… Metamorphosis: A Little Death 2 Aug 202025 Jul 2020 By Janet Ruth Janet Ruth is a retired NM ornithologist. Her writing focuses on connections to the natural world. She has recent poems in Sin Fronteras, Spiral Orb, Tiny Seed…
Nature… Overtaken 2 Aug 202019 Jul 2020 A silver hair strays down as I bend over the iris bed. I need no other sign that my DNA commingles columbine and verbena, sweat of my sweat. I spend…
Nature… Overtime 2 Aug 202014 Jul 2020 -Photographs by Rita Serra Rita Serra is an emerging poet and minted author. Her debut work, “Diary of a Blonde Vagabond,” is a poetic anthology that guides readers across four…
Nature Poetry… I Carry My Vessel From Water to Water 1 Aug 202025 Jul 2020 We carry our canoes, sacred text, dry shoes.Our guide wears a sun hat, hidden pockets. She shepherdseight campers teetering on the precipiceof becoming. In the morning with our sleep eyeswe…
Nature… Saint Modomnoc (c. 550 A.D.) 1 Aug 202030 Jun 2020 If by touching a wave, I should changethen likely the wave also changesIf by staring at stars of vast rangethis world through my eye rearrangesWhen the world followed me as…
Nature… Candle Bee 1 Aug 202014 Jul 2020 limited perception of what’s going on but it looks like tracks of pollen in my mind leading me like footprinted breadcrumbs that could lead anywhere, be anyone, show your light…
Nature… Samara Triolet 31 Jul 202027 Jul 2020 The maple lets go of winged seeds Resin lets it perch on her nose These silly yet sacrosanct deeds The maple lets go of winged seeds She jumps in leaf…
Nature… The Bees and I 31 Jul 202030 Jun 2020 The beesaround my headgive me spaceto cut spent bloomsawayAwayfrom time and thoughtI take their rhythm formy own, relax into the buzzthey singThey singof work as sweet,and timed to ancient clocks;I…
Nature… The Appearance of the Spoonbill 31 Jul 202014 Jul 2020 Can a thought that moves my hand and writes a word, birth an occurrence? Sounds like a mystical Jungian event, but sometimes, who denies there are things that happen where…
Nature… Honey Bees Have Come Home 30 Jul 202027 Jul 2020 beckoned by jasmine’s last hurrah, just in time for heady honeysuckle buds to perfume the neighborhood and hummingbird- favorite liliums, this bevy of plants-turned-hedges, habitat to dozens of finches hidden…
Nature… Chrysalis 30 Jul 202030 Jun 2020 tethered by a silken threadshe safely cocoons herselfa golden chrysalisquietly encasedpatiently preparingto free her constraintsshe will emerge a new selfexpanding her wingsto dance in the wind By Abby DeSantis Abby…
Nature… On the Porch 30 Jul 202014 Jul 2020 "He who kisses the joy as it flies”—William Blake August. At the behest of nature, life feels epiphanous. In the simultaneous lazy, longevity grows slender. Thick with humid blooms, summer’s…
Nature Phoebe 29 Jul 202027 Jul 2020 Yellow butterflies, enlighten our view, there - here - over there, float. Random sightings, light - airy - mellow. Never seen before time, shaded brilliant hues. Mosaic Monarchs near October’s…
