Nature… Queenright 16 Aug 20205 Aug 2020 Wait, listen.Hear the hum.Closer, feel it?The heartbeat thrum.The hive, alive,in harmony.A new queen risesto conduct her symphony. By Elizabeth Pagel-Hogan Elizabeth Pagel-Hogan is a children's writer out of Pittsburgh, PA.…
Nature… Honey Bee Homage 16 Aug 202015 Aug 2020 Admire the geometry of bees: the hexagonal chambers built for brood and storage of their liquid-gold labors. There’s symmetry in the four wings, the eyes and ocelli, the harvesting legs…
Nature… Bee on a Flower 16 Aug 202027 Jul 2020 -Photograph by John Laue John Laue, teacher/counselor, former editor of Transfer, San Francisco Review, and Monterey Poetry Review has won awards beginning with the Ina Coolbrith Poetry Prize at The…
Nature… Monarch Butterflies on Joe-Pye Weed 16 Aug 202015 Aug 2020 You cling to these late summer blossoms, uncurl fine filaments, kneading, needing sweet nectar for your flight. Hinged wings open, close like ancient Chinese kites, silk dyed tiger-bright, trimmed with…
Nature… Notes drawn from grass, Mid-May 16 Aug 202019 Aug 2020 -Sarah Leslie Sarah Leslie holds an MFA from California Institute of the Arts. Her fiction was named a semi-finalist for the American Short(er) Fiction Prize and her nonfiction earned…
Nature… A Carpenter Bee 15 Aug 20205 Aug 2020 A Carpenter Beecaught ayellow jacketmidair.They tumbledin cursiveto the ground,where the antdragged them in a circleby a wing.The bee got awaybut the yellow jackettucked his head,and left his vesperstraced in dust.…
Nature… Through My Kitchen Window 15 Aug 202025 Jul 2020 Up to my wrists in soap bubbles and warm water I tackle the stack beside the sink, things that take a human touch to clean. The front of my shirt…
Nature… Bumblebee (Childhood #19, Age 6) 15 Aug 202012 Aug 2020 Sunday morning after the early service, I wait outside at the edge, avoid the crush of hips, unwelcome bumps from handbags, jabbing elbows, too much perfume. I watch the grownups,…
Nature… A Butterfly Came to Stay 15 Aug 202014 Aug 2020 It sat down on my shoulder for a moment.Its beautiful azure blue violet colorsshining and surrounding my skin with lightthat permeated it ever so gently.I walked along carefully on my…
Nature… Honey 14 Aug 202012 Aug 2020 I linger among the bees flying in and out of the numerous hives lining the side yard by the alley. It’s a sunny late afternoon and each bee wears a…
Nature… Through the Eyes of Nature: example poem “And I, a Lemon” 14 Aug 202013 Aug 2020 Oh, glorious Mediterranean breeze on my skin! Oh, searing sun that simmers my insides into sharp, sweet juice! I hang from my head in blind ecstasy - I need no…
Nature… Consideration 14 Aug 20205 Aug 2020 By Angela Gregory-Dribben Angela Gregory-Dribben, a Bread Loaf alum, has poetry and essays in or are forthcoming in Deep South, Blue Mountain Review, San Pedro River Review, Motherscope, Crab Creek…
Nature… Tree in a Hurricane 14 Aug 202025 Jul 2020 We can take anything you can throw at us That’s what we were always taught. Bend. Sashay. Flutter. Shimmy. Do what you have to. Beckon. Sway. Stretch out an arm.…
Nature Through the Eyes of Nature: Example poem “Arctic Grayling” 14 Aug 202013 Aug 2020 I don’t question my instincts. My desire, each spring, to go home. I don’t long for legs or lungs or other pieces of a whole that don’t complete me. I…
Nature Winter is why 13 Aug 202012 Aug 2020 they ply the hive—circling, working—a phrizz of amber, and healing loosed via wings as the call to be golden crescendos. Their gilt arpeggios flag, come fall. “Be cold,” the wind…
Nature… Illness in April 12 Aug 202025 Jul 2020 There’s something magic about a friend who can hear your worst and still keep hoping Keeping the faith while you look for it like the little key lost between hospital…
Nature… This is the Day Called Waiting for Bees 12 Aug 20204 Aug 2020 This is the day called waiting-for-bees:first warm noon after months of rain.Oregon’s oldest apple tree explodes in white:thousands of petals, wind-tousled, ask.Buzz-absent air befuddles the quiet:this tree should be loud…
Nature… The Honeybee Scout 12 Aug 202010 Aug 2020 The Honeybee Scout The honeybee colony was in great danger. Their supply of sweet nectar and pollen had fallen dangerously low and if the Honeybee Scouts couldn’t find new flower…
Nature… Bee on a Crocus 12 Aug 202025 Jul 2020 -Photograph by Patricia Joynes Patricia Joynes has centered her nature photography from her home in Boone, North Carolina. Her photos have appeared in Blue Ridge Parkway annual calendars and on…
Nature… Leiden 11 Aug 20204 Aug 2020 The petals are glossy, red streaked with orange,look like those stretchy lollipops sold on beaches,seem so new they might bow inward and becomesomething else again. The airport in Amsterdamwas a…
Nature… Vicinage 11 Aug 20207 Aug 2020 Photograph by Jennifer Sakai Jennifer Sakai is a fine art photographer, professor, and independent curator who resides in Washington D.C. She is currently a Professor of Photography at the…
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