Nature… Last Call at the Bees’ Spring Saloon 30 Aug 20206 Aug 2020 They do not even wait for the seasonto rise from his bed, button his buttons,bright-belled and petaled with crisp, pleated leaves on.The bees barely sit until one suddenbrush of the…
Nature… London Eyes 30 Aug 202018 Aug 2020 Photo by Nina Wilson My name is Nina Wilson and I have a photographer, poet, and novelist from Indianola Iowa. I am also the author of two novels, "Surrender Language"…
Nature ENNUI GO (Living Through The Pandemic) 29 Aug 202027 Aug 2020 PART ONE The nest was perfect. So tiny and delicate, yet how fiercely it clung to the narrow spine of the pigmy palm frond in her backyard these last two…
Nature… I Can’t Mend the Coral Reef 29 Aug 20206 Aug 2020 Today the water is aqua and crystal clearfish too many to count____a school of gar glidinglike pencils of cellophaneover ripples in the sand____a great barracudastalking a fisherman’s bait____like waltzerson a…
Nature… Black Swallowtail Messenger Poem II 29 Aug 202014 Aug 2020 Caterpillars, tiny astronauts, harness themselves to fate, wriggle free from earthly suits enter orbital sleep wherein days pass and bodies melt away When their capsule doors open, On spindly legs…
Nature… Black-Eyed Susans 28 Aug 20206 Aug 2020 There is a mangy farm cat that found its way to Bethesda in the undercarriage of a pickup truck.Having found sufficient sustenance, (scraps thrown out by Pam’s diner in a…
Nature Butterfly Soldier 28 Aug 202018 Aug 2020 The Admiral wanders with his second, labyrinthine dusts and hum of the lilacs, covered in worker bees, Painted Ladies and Peacocks, drawn in by the glamour, the scent and a…
Nature… Why Ra Weeps 28 Aug 202014 Aug 2020 Bee scouts dance, waggle and sway point the way to scented patches: peonies before the petals fall, foxgloves bearded tongues, which, shaded at wood’s edge call like church bells, summoning…
Nature… Changing Minds 27 Aug 20206 Aug 2020 Between 1919 and 1959, humblebees became known as bumblebees. Some say the name-shifting influence was the advancement of aeronautics. Smooth airplane take-offs made the bee look lurchy, unfocused...bumbling. I prefer…
Nature… Piotr’s Paphiopedilum 26 Aug 202018 Aug 2020 William's body now lies freezing at the foot of Volcano Mount Sinabung in Sumatra and all for what? For the sake of a damned inflorescence, that is all. As I…
Nature… Our First Meeting 26 Aug 202014 Aug 2020 A thick mist slides through a sea of trees, crawling across the moss- laden floor. A closed flower arises to meet the mist, straightening toward the sky as night infringes…
Nature… A Prophesy 25 Aug 20205 Aug 2020 Each place hosts its own baptismal power; each location is a place to be reborn,To be new, each place a place for enhancement and enchantment.With each addition to ourselves we…
Nature… Monarch 25 Aug 202018 Aug 2020 Came so knowingly close, as if it knew that I watched a former design of itself— as caterpillar striped green & white— crawl head first down a thick wire affixed…
Nature… Saguaro 25 Aug 202025 Aug 2020 For one night only the cacti raise their headsas flowers. The blooms are as round and whiteand mottled as the moon; they open their ownpillowy craters abundant with melon-fragrancedpollen that…
Nature… Cabbage Fuchsia 25 Aug 202018 Aug 2020 Photo by Cathy Fedoruk Cathy Fedoruk ( www.cathyfedoruk.com ) is a mother, traveler, NYU alumna, and beagle-lover. Her work (writing and/or photography) has appeared in Dovetail, Montecristo, Passported.com, Pique Magazine,…
Nature… Humble-Bee 24 Aug 202018 Aug 2020 the bumblebee backache it’s the sacrum and the erector spinae muscle can the sky deliver relief? can a bee find pollen? sweet summer of yellow flower sun cold – hot,…
Nature… Evolution of Them 24 Aug 20205 Aug 2020 after a minor eternity looking up into the treethey’re still nibbling overripe ground fruitfinally they’re reaching up into the treegroping its pristine offspringunable to contain their sensesthey’re shinnying up the…
Nature… Butterfly 24 Aug 202014 Aug 2020 Compound eyes provide widest visual range in animal and insect kingdom, almost as if each orb sees all the way around itself— with ultraviolet light as friend to butterfly that…
Nature… Work Ethics 23 Aug 202018 Aug 2020 A diligence we hardly know is innate in the butterfly, in honey bee and bumblebee, in moths and beetles passing by. Of course, the flowers beckon them— perfume and nectar…
Nature… Flower in a Vase 23 Aug 202010 Aug 2020 Molucca balm in glass, upright, parallel to my lips; I inhale mauve irises, muted fixations gathered by another at the seams of us. We’ll fill the uncolored sepal with opaline…
Nature… Weeds 23 Aug 202010 Aug 2020 -Torina Stark Torina Stark is a textile shape shifter, mixed media artist, writer and teacher. As a lifelong Minnesotan, Torina combines her love of nature with different mediums to create…
Nature… Fragments gathering 22 Aug 202017 Aug 2020 We waited for the bats to emerge from the cave below. Stephanie and I had backpacked all over that summer, out into nearby mountains and mesas—the Franklins, Sacramentos, Black Range…
Nature Poetry… May Baskets 22 Aug 202015 Sep 2020 flash of yellows flutter old leaves scuttled by spring wind swirl tumble across new green as a trembling of finches ribbons around the base of beech and ash early morning…
Nature… Persistence of Nature 22 Aug 20205 Aug 2020 Photograph by Patrick McEvoy Patrick McEvoy has had stories included in various comic book anthologies, and short plays he wrote were chosen to be performed at the Players Theatre in…
Nature… A Most Deliberate Bumbling 22 Aug 202010 Aug 2020 Whitman speaks of loafing, accused by others of laziness. Little did they know the busy hum behind his half-closed eyes, synaptic leaps within stilled hands, that interior gathering of gold…
Nature… Tableau 21 Aug 202017 Aug 2020 The aurochs of Lascaux cave or the ghosts of Hiroshima or the figures of Basquiat are records on soot greased walls, and likewise the poems I have no choice but…
Nature Suffer Gladly 21 Aug 20205 Aug 2020 Maypop, passion vine, gaudy flowers symbol swollen, corona of crimped glory. Charismatic edible, soother of ruminators. A climber, rambunctious. What better host to a bittersweet longwing hugging you? Gulf Fritillary,…