Nature… Migrate 10 Aug 20204 Aug 2020 I wear a blue flower printcotton mask as I hikenear the foothillswhile summer teases spring.My breath steams my glasses.Must keep distantfrom others, but no onein sight. You swoopbefore me and…
Nature… the bees 10 Aug 20207 Aug 2020 Pick among them who fly from late flower to late flower, searching for nectar at the approach of high summer. I’m careful to keep my hands within the green and…
Nature… On a Trumpet Vine 10 Aug 202015 Aug 2020 The yellow-jacket fumbles like a novice on a closed creamsicle-colored bud while, all around, honey bees slip into open blunderbusses of blossoms and emerge filthy with sugardust. What is she…
Nature… Botanical Gardens 10 Aug 202028 Jul 2020 Photograph by Windflower Townley Windflower’s camera is a door into light and color and mediation-a connection with the poetry in nature and her own spirit. She loves to indulge in…
Nature… Does it Hurt to Bloom? 9 Aug 202020 Jul 2020 To peel each petal apart, backwards, straining to display the dusty pollen parts? What was once whole, when parted, will it sting? Can the power of that pain be compared…
Nature… learning the difference 9 Aug 20204 Aug 2020 One day I killed a carpenter bee that was crawling on the driveway.It was crawling and I squished it with my shoe. Mom told mecarpenters weren’t dangerous, not like the…
Nature… Hive Minded 9 Aug 20207 Aug 2020 Photographs by CB Adams CB Adams, MFA, is an award-winning writer and fine art photographer. His photographs have been exhibited nationwide and published in a variety of magazines and periodicals.…
Nature… Iris Rising 9 Aug 20204 Aug 2020 By Aimee Pozorski Aimee Pozorski is Professor of English and Director of English Graduate Studies at Central CT State University. She is a writer, gardener, dog-lover, partner, mother, and friend.…
Nature… Review of Margaret Atwood’s New Release: The Dream Tree 8 Aug 20204 Aug 2020 ______It’s taken me nearly a year to process all of the new releases from 2114, when they opened the vault at The Future Library project in Oslo. They spent the…
Nature Swallows and Swallowtails 8 Aug 20203 Aug 2020 Coming to water at varied times different days, I see something new with each circumnavigation of a mountain lake, a small gem fifteen miles from home. With the blue kayak…
Nature… Yellow Leads Me to Enlightenment 8 Aug 20207 Aug 2020 I traverse through serenity countless bright petals mimic the stars this field of sunflowers brings joy yellow leads me to enlightenment. Countless bright petals mimic the stars my body is…
Nature… Butterflies 8 Aug 202028 Jul 2020 1. White-spot Skipper 2. Swallowtail 3. Monarch Photographs by Ryan Dillis Ryan Dillis is an amateur photographer from Massachusetts. He loves exploring the world through a camera lens and capturing…
Nature… Auger Falls 8 Aug 202028 Jul 2020 is a giant V cut into the moraine of the mountainside, whose middle is a tumble and jumble of giant rocks wedged in like balls in a check-valve—which doesn’t stop…
Nature Upcoming Submission Opportunity -Through the Eyes of Nature 7 Aug 202028 Aug 2020 We are grateful to Soli Levy, our intern, for creating this wonderful and inspiring submission opportunity! Through the Eyes of Nature - Submissions open Aug 24 - Sept 7, 2020,…
Nature… Seeds 7 Aug 20203 Aug 2020 Particlesof pure potency.Cragsmen find you.And beachcombers.And nomads.Creatively obliviousto tragedy, loss, hatred,you find leg-roomwith refugees,in fire-felled forests,and under human wreckageof all sorts.You keep coming,supply ever exceedingexpectations. Tiny tyrants,your slaves are everywhere:breezes,…
Nature… She protects 7 Aug 20203 Aug 2020 She protects Melicythus Alpinus (Porcupine Shrub) See her stiff windswept hair, her ability to hang on despite fire, despite drought. She finds the most delicious and secretive spots to sit…
Nature… Sempervivum 7 Aug 20204 Aug 2020 By Carrie Albert Carrie Albert is a multifaceted artist and poet. Drawings, collage, comics, photographs and visual art/poem pairings have been published and featured in numerous journals, among these cahoodaloodaling,…
Nature… Poppies 7 Aug 202019 Jul 2020 As if being tuned in, continuously sharpening but never still, in hectic motion. The grass between them in two tones – garlic scape and park bench – vibrating in optical…
Nature… they flower in adversity 6 Aug 20203 Aug 2020 black snake plants are hard to kill you can try and fail their roots go deeper than can be imagined impossible to control unwilling to be contained make space for…
Nature Not About Butterflies 6 Aug 20203 Aug 2020 They warn you in workshops not to write poems about butterflies. It marks you as a sentimentalist and a dilettante. Yet, butterflies are so beautiful it’s always a temptation to…
Nature… Bear Awakes 6 Aug 202027 Jul 2020 Something crazy in the air,some turvy ancient wheel reels off its metabolic hingesletting loose a pent-up tribe of spirits and soulswho skitter across the boundary surfaces of mind and mattershaking…
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