Nature… Impossible Guest 24 Jul 202014 Jul 2020 One afternoon at the million-bells which hang at the corner of the deck he appears for a fleeting instant an apparition of inconceivable beauty thimble-sized seraph gorget ablaze like armor…
Nature Circle of Light 23 Jul 202014 Jul 2020 The students and I drift out of our single file during the night snorkel, torches off, circle up clasp hands, lean back and fin kick to stir fire algae into…
Nature Hummingbird, Zoom Zoom 23 Jul 202029 Jun 2020 Zoom Zoom, splashes of green, red, blue and purpleThe spout stretches to suck the juice of a red mandevilla in the sunlit bundle of bushesSoaring faster than any other birdWings…
Nature… The Bee 23 Jul 202014 Jul 2020 hovers beside me, whispering in my ear. He is large and comes close because he has something important to say. He says “all is good”. I ask how he knows…
Nature Flash Fiction The Gecko 22 Jul 202014 Jul 2020 Flash Fiction by Anne McMillan Born in Minnesota, Anne McMillan is a writer, opera singer, mountain hiker and nature lover living in Madrid, Spain. She received the 2018 Fulton…
Nature… The Neon Isle of Inner City 22 Jul 202029 Jun 2020 I will arise and go now, and go to the inner city,And a large skyscraper scale, of tar and metal made;Nine accountants will I have there, a hive for the…
Nature… Lilies at the Russian River 22 Jul 202014 Jul 2020 -Photograph by Callie Gonsalves Callie Gonsalves is currently studying creative writing in Cambridge, MA. In addition to four short stories and one poem published across three different literary magazines, she…
Nature Poetry Grace 21 Jul 202014 Jul 2020 Across the field this morning, shoots of blue toad flax bend their slender necks in the wind. In the vernal pool alongside the road, leopard frogs venture toward the sun.…
Nature… The Heights I Go 21 Jul 202021 Jul 2020 The Heights I Go Photograph by Jenny Hayut Jenny is a native of Virginia. She is a novelist, poet and photographer. Her poetry as well as her photography draws inspiration…
Nature… Laughing Florets 21 Jul 202014 Jul 2020 She was laughing with her head so I could not pull out her teeth. Her laughter infected whoever came near. I saw myself mirrored in her brown interior swarmed with…
Nature Poetry About Bees 20 Jul 202021 Jul 2020 I My father tended three hives. Months after each harvest we still dipped honey from five- gallon canisters, poured liquid sugar onto toast, licked our knives and fingers. Rich in…
Nature… waiting 20 Jul 202014 Jul 2020 there is no going back, no retreat for the plump green buds on the wild rose, exposed and vulnerable they must wait -as we must wait for what comes next,…
Nature… Tandem Beauty 20 Jul 202021 Jul 2020 Tandem Beauty Photograph by Ryan Cassidy. Ryan Cassidy received his bachelor's in History and minor in Archaeology from William Paterson University of New Jersey. He is a museum guide and…
Nature Photography… Scatter 19 Jul 202014 Jul 2020 We want directions To all the lost places, maps covered in clover and the shadows of birds. Imagine my body And what it makes scatter. Why live in one space…
Nature… Toxic Drift 19 Jul 20206 Jul 2020 “Mimosa” means sentient beings,wild trees with consciousness emittingfrom sensitive leaves. Exiled from ordainedEdens, these outcasts took root in my yard.Bees that were vanquished for years,like Israelites in the desert,return to…
Nature… White-winged doves/Palomas de alas blancas 19 Jul 202014 Jul 2020 border crossers from Western Mexico in the hottest time of year for the bloom, the fruiting of saguaros moving from flower to creamy white flower sipping nectar pushing pollen as…
Nature Poetry CROSS POLLINATION 18 Jul 202014 Jul 2020 I am like a lime or a lemon, a hybrid, not an original or pure species though perhaps the geography of an orange or grapefruit makes a more apt simile.…
Nature Photography Pollinator Poinsettia 18 Jul 202014 Jul 2020 Photograph by Ricardo Gonzalez-Roth An academic physician and scientific writer, Ricardo lives on a farm in North Florida and is a biology watcher and amateur photographer.
Nature… Saguaro 18 Jul 202029 Jun 2020 Wafting the scent of ripe melonsthe Saguaro blooms white –only one at a time,only under the stars.A nectar cup filled in the night air.Blossoms like uplifted facesscan the midnight sky,beckon…
Nature… Embrace 18 Jul 20206 Jul 2020 -Photograph by Janet Barry I am a poet and photographer, with images appearing in journals such as Off the Coast, Parenthesis, and Around Concord, as well as poems published in…
Nature Poetry She comes out of the sunrise. 17 Jul 202014 Jul 2020 The smallest of birds, she rises with the sun. Wet dew slides off hummingbird’s damp iridescent feathers welcomed by the thirsty earth. One thought consumes her as she searches.…
You must be logged in to post a comment.