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,…
Nature… Sweet Honey 21 Aug 20205 Aug 2020 braided wick welcoming match spark of heat each entwined strand drawing fire down combusting flame up igniting light swaying to whims of unseen breath nudging shadows this way and that…
Nature… Moon Diamonds 20 Aug 20205 Aug 2020 Wet in the spring rainMoths flame out on the wind screen:Seal points pounce and climb. By Heidi Dezember Heidi Dezember is currently employed as a litigation paralegal in the greater…
Nature… Sappho in the Garden 20 Aug 20205 Aug 2020 Early morning pale light Cool of sweet wind Sappho in her loveliness Bends to the soft earth Crocus bloom Pink cream lavender Narcissus kisses dawn Golden graceful trumpets Singing Gaia’s…
Nature Photography Standing Tall and Resilient 20 Aug 202017 Aug 2020 Photo by Nicole Gonzalez Nicole Gonzalez is a professor of psychology. When she's not teaching classes such as Social Psychology or The Psychology of Death & Dying, she…
Nature… Picnic with a Hornet 19 Aug 20205 Aug 2020 I dine mindfullyon the porchwithout a phoneor a book.A hornet patrolsthe ceiling,watching meinto the moment.I memorize the poembehind closed eyelids—in between her wingsand stinger. By Kristin Yates Kristin Yates is…
Nature Early Hive 19 Aug 202017 Aug 2020 Photo by Anne Holub Anne Holub is a poet and avid gardener who lives in Billings, Montana with her husband Dan and their two dogs named Merle and Rosie. [Link:…
Nature… Actias Luna 19 Aug 20205 Aug 2020 Luna MothDisguised in green, the lunahas dropped like a summer-fallenleaf onto a Norfolk pine—a barren roost. The wingsof a one-week creaturemimic a face with a starethat does not blink. Reticentas…
Nature… Tempest Song: Butterflies 19 Aug 20202 Aug 2020 I have launch'd forth from the cliff – Emma Tatham At the house where I teach my private student, we push the squeaky glass door to watch the monarchs billowing.…
Nature… Play! 18 Aug 202017 Aug 2020 A surprise wind whooshes and blows as the sky wakes up like an orchestra tuning its violins and oboes before a show. Leaves swoosh and swirl on dry cracked dirt.…
Nature… Little Ants 18 Aug 202017 Aug 2020 Photo by Josephine Napiore Josephine Napiore has previously been published by the University of Surrey, England, and Spectrum Literary Journal; and the DaCunha Global, Sheila-Na-Gig, The Five-Two and Lucky…
Nature… In The Garden 18 Aug 20202 Aug 2020 A mourning cloak butterfly settles on a red dahlia, folds its wings and feeds. For five minutes of our remaining lives I sit, watching. -Martha Christina Martha Christina is a…
Nature… From Vermont to Alaska: Cultivated and Wild Blossoms 17 Aug 20205 Aug 2020 Photographs by Matthew Dickerson Matthew Dickerson (www.troutdownstream.net) was a 2017 Artist in Residence at Glacier National Park and 2018 Artist in Residence at Acadia National Park. Although his favorite topic…
Nature The bee that cannot fly 17 Aug 202015 Aug 2020 There’s a bee on the floor in the middle of the hall that is going to get squashed for sure It still has its wings and it hasn’t lost its…
Nature In Search of Nectar 17 Aug 202015 Aug 2020 Photo by Tisha Mendes Tisha Mendes, is an avid traveller since her birth and has travelled the world. She has experienced the fury of storms in the Mediterranean, the magnificence…
Nature… Lisianthus 17 Aug 202027 Jul 2020 A window on the world breaks through our dining room: a rectangle of light outshining the white wall. But look, and you will see branches stretched darkly over the sky.…
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