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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