Nature The Tiburon Mariposa Lily 31 May 202326 May 2023 only grows on the thin serpentine soils that coat the slopes of Ring Mountain Preserve in Tiburon, California. Serpentinite, gray-green California state rock, so beautiful, so poisonous to life that…
Nature Bog 30 May 202326 May 2023 A wise woman told me that mixing air and water, intellect and emotion, yields fierce compassion. My lungs, thick with sobs do not believe. Water forces itself everywhere, seeping into…
Nature Wildflower Ramble 29 May 202326 May 2023 Our footsteps bruise a dark trail through foxtails, poppies, sky lupine. Here among greasewood, homesteads melt back to fern. A sinking oak rots into damp miner's lettuce. Iron nails rust…
Nature Matchless 28 May 202326 May 2023 This morning trumpet blasts its brassy two tone chartreuse and Merlot splashed lips in my face. She’s a root-bound strumpe in a bottle-blue vase swaying in accompaniment to a balmy…
Nature Who May Wish To Adjust Their Contract Regarding Endings 27 May 202326 May 2023 (inspired by a photo by Kit Sibert) White dandelions in a field, a sudden field. Overnight, an entire company of dream-addled recruits has seeped and flowed from the distant, dark,…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers Roadside Bouquet 26 May 20234 May 2023 ...this roadside bouquet quietly smiling at the people hurrying on their way hither and yon. These flowers thankfully protected by the guard rail that the city thoughtfully put in to--perhaps--guard…
Nature Drift 25 May 202320 May 2023 The canyon does not need my help: seasons cycle, the years tally, the moon, never once thinking of me, swells and recedes, full to sliver, and a few times every…
Nature Wildflowers of Northern Winter 24 May 202320 May 2023 In December, small birds blossom from treetops at dawn; the sun blooms like a dinnerplate dahlia, gold at its center and pink at the tips of its reach. Clumps of…
Nature Rudbeckia 23 May 202320 May 2023 Don’t call me black-eyed Susan.I am Rudbeckia hirta.Don’t make me seem triviallike a frilly child in a yellow smockskipping across a meadow.I tell you I am lovelierand more significant than…
Nature Daisy, Daisy, Daisy 22 May 202318 May 2023 She blossoms like a daisy,shouldering her way throughthe thick-bodied blades to bask her white petal armsin the sun. In summer’s furiousheat she does not shrink but thrives in blazing abundance.Watch…
Nature Queen Anne’s Lace 21 May 202317 May 2023 In the field along the riverbanktwo empty white chairsface one another near the water pump,sunflowers alreadyscraggly and dried.I snap a stem of Queen Anne’s Lace,inhaling its late-summer scentas I twirl…
Nature An Alpine Forget-Me-Not 20 May 202317 May 2023 In dormant form I rest under fiftyfeet of snow buffeted by howlingwinds high on the tundra of RockyMountain National Park beneathtowering peaks above 13,000 feet.Ever so gradually in April the…
Literary Owl Nature Writer Glazed Maple Eyes – By Literary Owl Nature Writer, Eidan Miana 19 May 202317 May 2023 Oh, how I cherish your glazed maple eyes I dive in their sweet invitation Your temptation teasing my desire Wisely spoiling me Yet cautiously halting overindulgence How I envy for…
Nature Mountain Thistles 19 May 202317 May 2023 The thistle is not earth’s most beautiful plant.Nor is the purple urchin of its blossom excusefor the ragged anger of its leaves and spines.But its roots spread into its motherlike…
Nature Ode to the Wild Strawberry 18 May 202317 May 2023 Oh, yellow bloom atop stout stemwith five petals to turn intoripe, sweet berries. Oh, green,green leaf with ruffled edge,may spring pander to your heart,and April nourish your beautywith its cool…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers The Wine Cup on my Hood 17 May 20234 May 2023 Someone or something left me a gift todayA wine cup blossom on the hood of my car I looked around and there were no wine cups orOther flowers growing near…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers Soft Landings 16 May 20233 May 2023 The earth was out past the snow now,mud laid bare in a winter melt.The thought of catching rabbits day after day is Fox’s reveriebut something catches at the thread.Odd tacks…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers Wild Sunflowers 15 May 20234 May 2023 Sunny halos frame frank brown faces turnedeast to worship dawn’s fist rays,call to me, “Just look up...” Julie Sellers Julie A. Sellers is the author of the novel Ann of…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers Forsythia 14 May 202318 Sep 2023 Death surprised me in a burst of yellowdriving the edge of Cayuga Lake. The news wasn’t slow like tulipsslowly poking up through soil. No. Instantaneous blossoms appearedgolden against still slumbering…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers What of Her Remains 13 May 20232 May 2023 The day before closing on the sale of the house and land the tall widower in his best shirt kneels in the wildflower meadow, after rain, eye level with his…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers There was nothing so wonderful 12 May 20232 May 2023 As messing around in that ravine. Its' slow slope slant carried my feet past our garden's last fence post Into a cool dark pattern of mottled light leading down to…
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