Nature Flash Fiction… Crow and Sunny 19 Oct 202013 Oct 2020 I used to watch her running through the dog pasture. She was shaggy. Her ears dark and long, almost to the ground, stuck way out from her head. Seven or…
Where is Your Wild Sparrow Street 19 Oct 202015 Oct 2020 A riot of sparrows in the hedge, Busy, querulous, all a chatter, Fluffed plump, nosy, never dull, Heads jut out past leaf and stem. A jaunty world of bustle and…
Nature… Postcard from Mars 18 Oct 202014 Oct 2020 I, a small red body floating here where your astronauts dare not venture, send greetings to you there on your hilltop, telescopes trained toward me, you who are manufactured from…
Nature Poetry… Amaryllis 18 Oct 202014 Oct 2020 This summer day, posed against orange zinnias, red geraniums—its hot rivals beyond the window glass—the flowering trumpet offers winter’s gift of white light. Through snow and sleet, while daffodils…
Where is Your Wild Wild Night Adventure 18 Oct 202013 Oct 2020 An overnight by the meadow under trees rustling breeze, my grown daughter and her children, they asleep, we heard coyotes, young ones yipping in delight, owls, insects, and rustling in…
Where is Your Wild Sunlight’s Smell 18 Oct 202015 Oct 2020 Is it sunlight’s smell The flowers remember In their faint way Or is it night Who covers them With a darkness That lingers As their fragrance Poem by Gerry…
Nature… When We Were Kestrels 17 Oct 202013 Oct 2020 It was easier of course. Riding the thermals only required reaching wide enough to make our wings flush with flattening slate of wind. Landing was harder, but you would expect…
Where is Your Wild Roadkill 17 Oct 202010 Oct 2020 Hawk, a red hawk, Maybe the hawk we saved last year. Hawk, our hawk, Once one has a face, They all do. I killed the cat by pulling away too…
Nature Photography… Natural Perceptions 17 Oct 202014 Sep 2022 Photos by Neil Berkowitz Neil Berkowitz is an emerging photographic artist and printmaker living in Seattle. He pursued a dual major in photography at the Newhouse School…
Nature… Alleyway Vines 16 Oct 202014 Oct 2020 Photograph by Meg Freer Meg Freer grew up in Montana and now lives with her family in Kingston, Ontario, where she teaches piano and music history. She enjoys outdoor activities…
Nature… Possum at the Compost 16 Oct 202011 Oct 2020 The opussum is a beast as big as a pretty beagle, of grey cullour; yt hath a head like a swyne; eares, feet, and tayle like a ratt; she carries…
Where is Your Wild domino grass 16 Oct 202015 Oct 2020 Poem by Gillie Robic Gillie Robic was born in India and lives in London. Her poems have appeared in the UK and the US. Her two collections, "Swimming Through…
Featured Poet… Featured Poet: Michelle Sylliboy 16 Oct 202014 Oct 2020 Breathe My lungs are filling up ocean air working to the tenderness of natural knowledge it seeks completely inspired by the music she creates daily sudden memories…
Nature… Carpet Diem 15 Oct 202013 Oct 2020 Photograph and quote by Stuart Terman, M.D. Stuart Terman, M.D. is a physician, previously Assistant Clinical Professor/Ophthalmology/Case Western Reserve in his home city of Cleveland, and was an attending/supervising Ophthalmic…
Where is Your Wild Newborn 15 Oct 20209 Oct 2020 These days I celebrate each living thing the soft tuft of rabbit I see at dusk peeking from under the shed. The restless nestlings hatching in the bird house by…
Nature… Reflections on the Speech of Crows 15 Oct 202014 Sep 2022 Poem by James Byrd I am a teacher, musician, artist, poet, scientist, veteran (Infantry, Vietnam 66-67), and a devotee of life, love and the natural world. I am Georgian by…
Where is Your Wild Bergamot 14 Oct 202014 Oct 2020 Every mid-summer July blooms the wild bergamot. And in southeast Minnesota, it often is found a lot. The round flowers are lavender-ish pink. Come out to the prairie and see…
Nature… Thicket of Memories 14 Oct 202011 Oct 2020 Thickets rise, their bony fingers splayed, sharp nails scratching my legs, begging for my green. I look away, ascending towards the blue. Descent into the brambles would bring consumption, swirled…
Nature Photography… A Worm’s Eye View of the World 14 Oct 20208 Oct 2020 Photography by Roger Camp Roger Camp is the author of three photography books including the award winning Butterflies in Flight, Thames & Hudson, 2002 and Heat, Charta, Milano, 2008. His…
Where is Your Wild Visiting My Neighbors, The Sunflowers 14 Oct 202011 Oct 2020 Let us walk down the path whose silhouette can only be seen visible through encroaching weeds and overgrown grasses, brown from the summer’s heat At the end where the trail…
Through the Eyes of Nature The Grove 13 Oct 202014 Oct 2020 Here at the edge of the farm, there’s a good deal of guessing if you were planted or happened to get lucky by landing in the good growing dirt. But…
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