Seeds Scorpionweed 24 Jun 202219 Jun 2022 the purple fiddle-head flowers were pretty at first, adorning hairy foliage so we let them be, a weed, we knew, yet somehow ornamental but then the plants turned brown, leaves…
Seeds Top Down 23 Jun 202219 Jun 2022 If we remove the top predators nature is decapitated and all the seeds fly away. As seeds we can blow anywhere you want to travel. We can even create a…
Seeds Costa Rica Gestalt 22 Jun 202219 Jun 2022 coatiagouti hummingbirdkite treefrogcroc lianafig raincloudforest If I am able to blossom for fruit bats, I will become seed fallen to earth with potential for further development—a seedling Poem by…
Seeds Chain Tree 21 Jun 202219 Jun 2022 Photography by K.L Johnston K.L. Johnston is a photographer and poet whose images first appeared in 2014 in South Carolina ETV's in-house magazine "Scene". Since then, her photos have…
Seeds Flower 20 Jun 202214 Jun 2022 The constant friends in joy and sadness have long since scattered after the party or before the tragic news. Are there any you support? If you're asking me I run…
Seeds Patience is 19 Jun 202214 Jun 2022 Gobbled up, by a bird, No greater function, purpose served. But await, bird alights, Leaving stains, Black and white. In it spy, tiny seed, Now to grow, Purposefully. Poem…
Seeds Chesapeake Street 18 Jun 202214 Jun 2022 Our sunny corner on Chesapeake Street is lined with pine trees and bamboo stalks. She is filled with cherry blossom petals in April, And the deep orange Maple trees of…
Seeds today I gardened with three year olds 17 Jun 202214 Jun 2022 rewind to Autumn when I inherited a raised bed garden from the teacher before me, soil cracked and dry, tan remains of weeds bending in time to the heat blast…
Seeds Learning to Let it Be 16 Jun 202214 Jun 2022 Poem by Samaa Abdurraqib Samaa Abdurraqib is a Black/Queer/Muslim writer living in unceded Wabanaki territory, close to the ocean and the mountains. Recently, her poetry can be found…
Seeds Extraordinary in the Simple 15 Jun 202214 Jun 2022 Rose, Orchid and Daisy Photography by Caitlin Garvey Caitlin Garvey (b. Brooklyn, New York) is a Virginia-based photographer whose work explores the themes of identity and relationship. Drawing inspiration from…
Seeds This is How to Talk to Birds 14 Jun 202218 May 2022 This is how to listen. This is how to pray before dawn. This is how to feel alive in your own skin. This is how to feed the birds. This…
Nature… hope 13 Jun 202217 May 2022 Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all. —…
Nature… Dandelion 12 Jun 202217 May 2022 It’s your parachute that takes you away, the one of old age that disperses your seed, when bracts bend down for launching your release to the dropping of stamens, dried…
Nature… Landing 11 Jun 202216 May 2022 The invasion was not what we expected. Everyone had been wrong. The Outer Limits and Twilight Zone had it wrong. The B movies of the old drive-in theaters were quite…
Nature… Little Forest 10 Jun 202216 May 2022 boreal mixed forest saplings can be planted surprisingly close to one another three per square in a grid of one-metre plots Eastern redbud and…
Nature… Dent De Lion 9 Jun 202215 May 2022 Your green lions’ teeth— jagged-edge leaves— devour neighboring sprouts. Day by day we watch your shafts erect until phallus buds unfurl— yellow fronds explode. Honeybees jockey and feast for pollen…
Nature Alligator Pear 8 Jun 202215 May 2022 March: I hang a young avocado seed, rounded bottom in water, top pointed to air. April: researched its name. 1915 California farmers, renamed testicular “ahuacate” as “avocado.” April-May: a straight…
Nature… Sudden Sunset 7 Jun 202215 May 2022 In a sudden sunset forest In a certain glow of light The last rays of day Cast their colorful fire We watch the deepening The layers of orange upon orange…
Nature… Saltwater 6 Jun 202215 May 2022 The path was gritty beneath my bare feet as I made my way toward the water. A cool evening breeze tossed my loose bangs across my face, dispelling the muggy,…
Nature… Fertilizer 5 Jun 202215 May 2022 To lie face down in the earth until becoming as soft as the clay. The ground absorbs like the undulating arms of an amoeba. Swallows whole while sucking the soil…
Nature… Even the Desert 4 Jun 202214 May 2022 Clenched like a seed in the crevice of dry rock and then, first mist like baptism a soft drenching water orb on wax as night falls. The drop stays dissolves…
Nature… eden 3 Jun 202214 May 2022 1. I’m burning with bloom here, in this own bedroom, where the life-sounds coming from the people I love people I love permeate my sleep. I wake with salt dried…
Nature… To Wonder About the Dandelion Seeds, is to Wonder About Ourselves 2 Jun 202214 May 2022 I watch the brown puffs of sparrow. They are so many, and so common. In an instant, this could be over. In an instant, nuke or storm could hit, as…
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