Nature… Painted Ladies with Wasp 6 Aug 202017 Oct 2020 Photograph by Jennie MacDonald Award-winning writer and photographer Jennie MacDonald's photographs have been featured in 3Elements Literary Review, The Esthetic Apostle, Typehouse Literary Review, and others. More images can be…
Nature… Adamant 5 Aug 202027 Jul 2020 Blue billy goat weed tucked in mudblinks at medamp green undergrowthand earthy bracken along riverbankDaughter's croupy coughaccompanies uson our idle pathLater, I have to look upthe adamant, blue nameBack in…
Nature… Praying Mantis and Bee 5 Aug 20203 Aug 2020 I watch a praying mantis seesaw with purpose across the sidewalk to a bush ablaze in red flowers and bees. She swings like a monkey onto a branch— waits patiently…
Nature… Sow Thistle 5 Aug 202015 Jul 2020 Some days the things that are always here are more here than before. A sow thistle in a light wind plays green flute at the bottom of a sun shaft…
Nature… Syrphid Fly (flower fly) on Queen Anne’s Lace 5 Aug 20206 Aug 2020 -Photograph by Greg Clary Greg Clary is Professor Emeritus of Rehab and Human Services at Clarion University, Clarion PA. His poems have appeared in The Rye Whiskey Review, North/South Appalachia,…
Nature Poetry… Wanted 4 Aug 202025 Jul 2020 Wild with spring tenderness,the woods are blooming with flowers,but invasive species are on notice.Long ago, someone named these foreigners:Silene vulgaris,maidens’ tears, tender-leafed,delicious in oil, sautéed in garlic.Lymus arenarius,sand-loving lyme grass,…
Nature… Bluebells in the Time of Coronavirus 4 Aug 20203 Aug 2020 We cut a path through bluebells powdering The woods, and as you bent to put a hand Down to a white variety, you called to me, Stopped on the wooden…
Nature Poetry… To the Owlet Moth (Noctuidae) 4 Aug 202025 Jul 2020 At night you_______shake tiled wings of moss and lichen,________________float up from underleaf,a speckled kabuki fan no one holds._________Shudder to warm grey and white wings._________________stares deep into night-bloomingorchid, unafraid of velvet…
Nature… Flight of the Honey Guide 4 Aug 202014 Jul 2020 The black-throated bird who lives in Sub-Saharan Africa can smell the hive miles away, flies toward it before dawn, to dine on the waxy combs and luscious larvae that remain…
Nature… Bumblebees 3 Aug 20203 Aug 2020 Photograph by Richard Lebowitz: Bumblebee on Midwestern Tickseed Sunflower I heard the bumblebees before I found them in the half-light of evening. The stems bending under their feathery weight…
Nature… IN DARK TIMES WE GATHER LIGHT 3 Aug 20202 Aug 2020 Catherine Young's writing has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best American Essays. She worked as a national park ranger, farmer, mother, and educator. Her ecopoetry and prose is…
Nature… Song of Thanks 3 Aug 20203 Aug 2020 The butterfly drifts in a kaleidoscope of dreams. Stirring our imagination with songs of eternal summer. Imprinting life’s lessons from flower to flower. Its’ delicate wonderment propels us to look…
Nature… Condo Aviary 3 Aug 202014 Jul 2020 It’s three in the morning and I wake to the incessant tweet, tweet, twittering of sparrows in concert with a shrill twisting chir-rup, chirrup, chirrrr a chorus that fills the…
Nature… Sandy Loves Rothko 3 Aug 202014 Jul 2020 And glass and flight paths of winged hive makers Growing green things to pull them nearer to feed them To create home part of a whole Sandy and I are…
Nature Poetry… Metamorphosis: A Little Death 2 Aug 202025 Jul 2020 By Janet Ruth Janet Ruth is a retired NM ornithologist. Her writing focuses on connections to the natural world. She has recent poems in Sin Fronteras, Spiral Orb, Tiny Seed…
Nature… Overtaken 2 Aug 202019 Jul 2020 A silver hair strays down as I bend over the iris bed. I need no other sign that my DNA commingles columbine and verbena, sweat of my sweat. I spend…
Nature… Overtime 2 Aug 202014 Jul 2020 -Photographs by Rita Serra Rita Serra is an emerging poet and minted author. Her debut work, “Diary of a Blonde Vagabond,” is a poetic anthology that guides readers across four…
Nature Poetry… I Carry My Vessel From Water to Water 1 Aug 202025 Jul 2020 We carry our canoes, sacred text, dry shoes.Our guide wears a sun hat, hidden pockets. She shepherdseight campers teetering on the precipiceof becoming. In the morning with our sleep eyeswe…
Nature… Saint Modomnoc (c. 550 A.D.) 1 Aug 202030 Jun 2020 If by touching a wave, I should changethen likely the wave also changesIf by staring at stars of vast rangethis world through my eye rearrangesWhen the world followed me as…
Nature… Candle Bee 1 Aug 202014 Jul 2020 limited perception of what’s going on but it looks like tracks of pollen in my mind leading me like footprinted breadcrumbs that could lead anywhere, be anyone, show your light…
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